To Be Where You Are To Be Where You Are
Book 14 - A Mitford Novel

To Be Where You Are

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Publisher Description

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

#1 New York Times-bestselling author Jan Karon returns with the fourteenth novel in the beloved Mitford series, featuring three generations of Kavanaghs.


Wounds heal, bonds grow stronger, and celebrations continue...Welcome back to beloved Mitford. 

After twelve years of wrestling with the conflicts of retirement, Father Tim Kavanagh realizes he doesn't need a steady job to prove himself. Then he's given one. As for what it proves, heaven only knows.

Millions of Karon fans will be thrilled that it's life as usual in the wildly popular Mitford series: A beloved town character lands a front-page obituary, but who was it, exactly, who died? And what about the former mayor, born the year Lindbergh landed in Paris, who's still running for office? All this, of course, is but a feather on the wind compared to Muse editor J.C. Hogan's desperate attempts to find a cure for his marital woes. Will it be high-def TV or his pork-chop marinade? In fiction, as in real life, there are no guarantees. 

Twenty minutes from Mitford at Meadowgate Farm, newlyweds Dooley and Lace Kavanagh face a crisis that devastates their bank account and impacts their family vet practice. But there is still a lot to celebrate, as their adopted son, Jack, looks forward to the most important day of his life--with great cooking, country music, and lots of people who love him. Happily, it will also be a day when the terrible wound in Dooley's biological family begins to heal because of a game--let's just call it a miracle--that breaks all the rules.

In To Be Where You Are, Jan Karon weaves together the richly comic and compelling lives of two Kavanagh families, and a cast of characters that readers around the world now love like kin.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2017
September 19
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
464
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Publishing Group
SELLER
PENGUIN GROUP USA, INC.
SIZE
5.2
MB

Customer Reviews

M.o.m.1962 ,

Another Beautiful Story

Ok. I'm prejudiced when it comes to Ms. Caron. I've devoured everything she's written, twice. This one is no exception. Beautifully written, familiar characters and the cycle of life, good, sad and messy. If you're a fan, this one doesn't disappoint, if you're just picking it up and don't know the series....don't! Start at the beginning!! All of the characters that are referenced are in a special story all of their own. Read them all before you read this one. It will make this one richer.

Libbie Bailey ,

Dooley and Lace Need to Read BOUNDARIES by Dr. Henry Cloud

Sorry, but I’m simply not interested in reading about the self-induced chaos of a young couple who bite off more than they can chew so that responsible adults can bail them out of the calamity they've created by giving them free stuff. C’mon now, be honest—doesn’t your stress level rise when you read about Dooley, Lace, Jack, Harley, Willie, countless dogs, cats, cows, pigs, friends, brothers, cleaners, plumbing, murals, and now—get this—another baby on the way? What a zoo! I’m just glad they’re not my kids. And why is Father Tim forever slipping $20s and buying x-ray machines for a guy that inherited over $1 million?! It’s just not healthy. Fortunately, these sections are clearly marked “Messygate” so I eventually skipped over them and headed straight to “Mitford”. I’m hoping, praying, and on my knees begging Jan Karon to please, please, PLEASE focus on the RV adventure with only an occasional text from the zoo in the next book. Lord help.

Sioux City girl ,

More Mitford Magic!

Reading this book reintroduced me to the down home wonderful characters of the preceding Mitford books. Don’t miss this one. It is a wrap up to the preceding novels and will leave you feeling whole and complete!

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