Heart in the Right Place
Little, Brown and Company · Paperback · August 19, 2008
Carolyn Jourdan, an attorney on Capitol Hill, thought she had it made.
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- Who it’s for
- Readers interested in heartfelt stories about family and community
- Themes
- family, community, healing
- Pacing
- Steady
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Carolyn Jourdan, an attorney on Capitol Hill, thought she had it made. But when her mother has a heart attack, she returns home—to the Tennessee mountains, where her father is a country doctor and her mother works as his receptionist. Jourdan offers to fill in for her mother until she gets better.
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But days turn into weeks as she trades her suits for scrubs and finds herself following hazmat regulations for cleaning up bodily fluids; maintaining composure when confronted with a splinter the size of a steak knife; and tending to the loquacious Miss Hiawatha, whose daily doctor visits are never billed. Most important, though, she comes to understand what her caring and patient father means to her close-knit community. With great humor and great tenderness, Heart in the Right Place shows that some of our biggest heroes are the ones living right beside us.
Who it’s for
- Readers interested in heartfelt stories about family and community
- Fans of humor blended with tender life experiences
Where it sits
| Personal Memoirs | 79% |
|---|---|
| Women's Lives | 76% |
| Lives in Medicine | 57% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Personal Memoirs
- Authors
- Carolyn Jourdan
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Published
- August 19, 2008
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- family · community · healing
- Reading lane
- Personal Memoirs