It can be rough if things don’t go the way they’ve always gone. In Evergreen Tidings from the Baumgartners, Violet Baumgartner has always sent a holiday letter, she’s planning the perfect retirement party to share in her letter, and, well, nothing really goes as planned.
“Life is what happens between plans,” a very wise professor once told me as I crumbled when nothing was going my way. Violet totally has life happening to her in this fun holiday season novel. I found that once I picked it up, and got into the thick of it, I couldn’t put it down. I just had to see what would happen next.
Be sure to read all the way to the end – there’s a giveaway afoot! (And seriously, you’re going to want this novel to read during the holiday season.)
About Evergreen Tidings from the Baumgartners:
Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Park Row; Original edition (October 16, 2018)
A formidable matriarch learns the hard way that no family is perfect in this witty, sparkling debut novel
Dearest loved ones, far and near—evergreen tidings from the Baumgartners!
Violet Baumgartner has opened her annual holiday letter the same way for the past three decades. And this year she’s going to throw her husband, Ed, a truly perfect retirement party, one worthy of memorializing in her upcoming letter. But the event becomes a disaster when, in front of two hundred guests, Violet learns her daughter Cerise has been keeping a shocking secret from her, shattering Violet’s carefully constructed world.
In an epic battle of wills, Violet goes to increasing lengths to wrest back control of her family, infuriating Cerise and snaring their family and friends in a very un-Midwestern, un-Baumgartner gyre of dramatics. And there will be no explaining away the consequences in this year’s Baumgartner holiday letter…
Full of humor, emotion and surprises at every turn, Evergreen Tidings from the Baumgartners brings to life a remarkable cast of quirky, deeply human characters who must learn to adapt to the unconventional, or else risk losing one another. This is the story of a family falling to pieces—and the unexpected way they put it all back together.
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About Gretchen Anthony
Gretchen Anthony is a Minnesota-based writer and humorist whose work has been featured on scarymommy.com, medium.com and thewritelife.com. She’s also spent decades as a ghostwriter and has written for some of the best personal brands in the United States, from CEOs to doctors and start-up superstars to BBQ pros. Evergreen Tidings from the Baumgartners is her first novel.
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