The Road to Tender Hearts
Bookstore find. A reforming lottery winner. An unknown family. A road trip. Classic cars. Retired high school flames, did I get that right?
Further along but not too far in, I realized that there was a touch of magical realism, for anyone who hasn’t lived with a psychic cat (all cats are psychic — established fact). But the rest of the characters, nothing too improbable, realistically drawn, fleshed out as human, nothing out of the ordinary. We’ve all known these people. Maybe not in this exact setting, and perhaps that’s what makes it seem like fiction at first.
The backdrop of blended families, or a blended family, plus what some orphans might feel, all thrown into an almost realistic setting, driving cross country?
“Hook ‘em Horns,” gratuitous UT Austin allusion.
In my own mind, very well-written, with emotional hooks that seem to dig deep. Still think of it as a comedy.
The Road to Tender Hearts
Could be comparable to a coming of age story, albeit he’s 63.
