KIU Book Club: Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes

KIU, Western Campus câ¬â€œ As the new year begins, we all have to start over because of the challenges brought asbout by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lives were changed, livelihoods lost and even some lives lost. This book will inspire you to start anew and have faith that this year will be your breakthrough.

In a sleepy seaside town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth câ¬Å“Evviec⬝ Drake rarely leaves her large, painfully empty house nearly a year after her husbandcâ¬â„cs death in a car crash. Everyone in town, even her best friend, Andy, thinks grief keeps her locked inside, and Evvie doesncâ¬â„ct correct them.

Meanwhile, in New York City, Dean Tenney, former Major League pitcher and Andycâ¬â„cs childhood best friend, is wrestling with what miserable athletes living out their worst nightmares call the câ¬Å“yipsc⬝: he cancâ¬â„ct throw straight anymore, and, even worse, he cancâ¬â„ct figure out why. As the media storm heats up, an invitation from Andy to stay in Maine seems like the perfect chance to hit the reset button on Deancâ¬â„cs future.

When he moves into an apartment at the back of Evviecâ¬â„cs house, the two make a deal: Dean woncâ¬â„ct ask about Evviecâ¬â„cs late husband, and Evvie woncâ¬â„ct ask about Deancâ¬â„cs baseball career. Rules, though, have a funny way of being brokencâ¬â€and what starts as an unexpected friendship soon turns into something more. To move forward, Evvie and Dean will have to reckon with their pastscâ¬â€the friendships theycâ¬â„cve damaged, the secrets theycâ¬â„cve keptcâ¬â€but in life, as in baseball, therecâ¬â„cs always a chancecâ¬â€up until the last out. 

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