This long-awaited sequel to Echoes, winner of a Florida Writers Association 2004 literary award takes up where Echoes leaves off. It is the continuing story of the Hoffmann family—but if you haven't read Echoes you will still love Second Chances.
In the house where Patty was born, she lives with her father and young daughter. Life is good—happy—safe. But, little does she know that a change is on the horizon, a change that will turn her world upside-down and forever alter her life.
Follow Patty and George as they fulfill their lives after the loss of their mother and wife. But there are bumps in the road and twists and turns neither expected and if Patty cannot garner enough faith to accept the changes there will be no Second Chances for her or her father.
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Excerpt from Chapter One:
My daughter was born two days before my mother died. If I close my eyes I can easily return to those day although most of the time I try not to. Could it possibly be almost five years ago? But I know my count is correct. Those two happenings will always be joined in my heart -- the loss and the gift -- the hurt and the joy, tied together like a precious package.
My mother was truly a special person but I didn't realize that until it was almost too late. When we learned Mom was terminally ill it was a shock, a wake-up call, a stunnng blow to our complacency. This couldn't behappening…not to us. Three to six months was what the doctors gave her. "That isn't enough time," we cried, our world falling apart. But Mom was the one with the strength. She had one goal to fulfill in what little time was left to her…to reunite our family. Not that there were any great rifts, just differences that made me and my brother and sister choose lives that were separate…diverse…
I'm Patty Hoffmann, her youngest daughter and now I live in the house where I was born. Mom's house. It's just me, my dad and my little girl. And try as I might there is never a time when I can completely shut out that time five years ago when Lili-Kay was born and Mom died…I remember…
The deep-dive literary meditations presented as stories, poems, and essays in The American Poet Who Went Home Again, A Mosaic of My Soul at Work, have captivated and inspired readers ever since its first paperback publication in 2008.
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