Everything is Probably Fine by Julia London
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Everything is Probably Fine by Julia London is an emotional journey of hope, forgiveness, self discovery, forgiveness, emotional healing and found family.
Lorna
Lott had a traumatic and toxic upbringing: her sister is an addict, her grandma
is an alcoholic and her mother was a single woman just trying to make ends
meet. Lorna is bitter she’s angry and she’s self sabotaging at her
sales job, where she is focused on a promotion and pay raise. She needs the
money so she can buy the building she lives in; a building that was once her
Nana’s house. That house was a place of magic for young Lorna, a place she
visited when her parents fought, and a place she lived at after her parents’
divorce. Now the house, split into apartments, is a crumbling mess. Her neighbors
mean nothing to her anyway, nobody does. It’s just Lorna and her little dog
Agnes.
When
Lorna accidently makes a horrible error at work, her boss enforces 30 days paid
leave, but there’s a twist.
Her manager informs her she must attend a
mandatory wellness program; a retreat for
some self reflection after the disastrous office incident. Suddenly Lorna has a
month of therapy and a lot of free time. As
Lorna works her way through the program, everything within her begins to change.
This
becomes a beautiful journey for Lorna as she lets herself feel and opened
herself up to trusting new people. She is befriended by her eight year old
neighbor Bean who wants to help her because he can get a scout badge for
helping old people. He was such a ray of sunshine in this. Dealing with his own
loss of his mother and neglect from his busy father, these two were an unlikely
pair, but they took care of each other. Soon she is getting to know the other
neighbors as she begins to forgive and she begins to live. Together, these
residents of her Nana’s house become a found family.
Everything
is Probably Fine was not what I expected; yet it was perfect: the love; the
heart; the heartbreak. When I say this book is everything; it is everything. A
self help month, and along the way, she meets unlikely friends and learns to
open herself up to love again. And Bean? Bean is literally an angel walking
among us.
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