I just finished Night of Miracles by Elizabeth Berg.
loved!
cried!
Beautifully written, Night of Miracles is simply a story of how lives are interwoven,
and how the smallest of things turn into miracles.
It’s a story of community…
friendship…
love and loss…
and the meaning of life itself.
“When Lucille was a girl, a carnival came to town one summer and they had a ride called the whirligig. You sat in some wooden contraption that jerked you here, there and everywhere. One minute you’d be going forward, the next backward, or sideways or tilted over so far you thought you might fall out. It was never still and you had no idea what might come next. That’s life. You’re born, and then you get a ride on the whirligig.”
*The Story of Arthur Truluv is the first book in this series, and although you don’t have to read it to know what’s going on, I think it’s just as endearing and charming as Night of Miracles.
and she was 