The Second Bloom of Emily Norris: A Novel of Midlife Reinvention

Everyone agrees Emily Norris should take the sensible job.

She is fifty-two, six months divorced, and sleeping in her sister's guest room beside nine boxes she has never unpacked. Her ex-husband is engaged to a woman half his age. Her settlement will not last the year, and the only thing anyone wants to discuss is what she plans to do about that.

So on the worst morning of a very bad year, Emily spends every dollar she has on a hundred-and-fourteen-year-old art supply shop that has been shut ...