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A Blue Star
Paperback
Publisher: Ben Solomon
Published: Sep 3 2026
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Every morning before sunrise, Nora unlocks the Blue Star Café in the small town of Marlowe, pours the first pot of coffee, and holds together a life that's been stretched thin since her divorce - a young son named Eli who notices everything, a diner full of regulars who feel like family, and never quite enough hours in the day. Then Elias Mercer starts appearing every Tuesday and Thursday at exactly eleven forty-five, demanding a clean spoon and gravy without a skin on it, a gruff and exacting presence who seems to be carrying something far heavier than his complaints about burnt toast. As the seasons turn and old griefs surface - a lawyer's wife, a man named Graham in Dallas, a winter in France, a will that changes everything - the Blue Star becomes the place where broken lives quietly find their way back toward warmth. A Blue Star is a tender, small-town novel about grief, second chances, and the found family that gathers, one plate at a time, under a flickering neon sign.
- A cast of vividly drawn small-town regulars - a gruff veteran, a devoted cook, a sharp-tongued waitress - anchored by warm, character-driven dialogue
- A slow-building relationship between two guarded people learning to let each other in
- Five interwoven parts tracing loss, memory, and reconnection across changing seasons
- An unflinching, tender look at single motherhood and the quiet resilience it demands
- A richly atmospheric small-town setting that turns a neon-lit diner into the heart of the story
If you love slow-burn, character-driven small-town fiction with heart, get your copy of A Blue Star today.
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