The Season of Second Chances, (Paperback)

from bibanon1

I received an advance copy of this book from the publisher. When 48-year-old Columbia English professor Joy Harkness receives the offer of a lifetime to teach at Amherst College, she jumps at the chance to escape her unsatisfying New York life and start over. Emotionally shut-down and socially aw...

from bookwormygirl

This was such a nice, feel-good book. Ms. Meier penned some very interesting characters that I found to be very honest, realistic, relateable and likeable. When Joy is given the choice of landing her dream job, leaving NYC and her average life behind, she grabs that bull by the horns and runs wit...

from tara35

Joy Harkness moved to New York City to teach at Columbia years ago. The life she expected she'd have in New York - the one with a social life and excitement - never really materialized. At age 48, Joy is given an opportunity to teach at a small college in Massachusetts and participate in an excit...

from whitreidtan

Everything about the blurb for this book screamed "read me" to me. And who am I to ignore such strident and impassioned hollering? I would have missed out on a delightful and fantastic book if I had turned a deaf ear. Sadly, I think I am not as persuasive though since I highly recommended this on...

from FearsomeFoursome

My mother would call Joy Harkness a late bloomer, but bloom she finally did. Joy is a tenured literature professor at Columbia University, so emotionally isolated that when the opportunity came to move to New York she left her home town, parents, and husband of four years without a backward glanc...