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    612-822-4611

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Where the Porches Meet

Where the Porches Meet

Brightstone, Felix

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN13: 9798258133724
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 20 2026
Pages: 282
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When Ruth Calloway sends four letters to her four grown children, she does not tell them she is dying. She tells them she has a secret she has carried for thirty years - and that it is time they knew.

James never left Millbrook. Carol left and never looked back. Denny has been driving away from something for seven years. Lily has been holding the family together with both hands since she was twelve years old.

One by one they come home to the house on Ridgeline Road in Millbrook, Tennessee. One by one the week pulls out of them everything they have spent years not saying - about the store that is bleeding money, the marriage that is already over, the woman Denny loved and abandoned, the fellowship in London that Lily is afraid to accept.

And at the centre of all of it: Ruth's secret. A friendship destroyed. A man who loved two women. Letters hidden in a wall for thirty years. And a neighbour named Hank, who has been quietly keeping this family together in ways none of them knew.

Where the Porches Meet is a novel about the cost of silence and the courage of honesty. About families that break apart one missed call at a time and the extraordinary ordinary work of coming back together. About the things we inherit from the people who raised us - their strength, their stubbornness, and, if we are lucky, their capacity to change.

Warm, funny, and deeply felt - for readers who love The Dutch House, Little Fires Everywhere, and Where the Crawdads Sing.

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