A FUNNY KIND OF PARADISE

A sparkling and heartwarming debut novel based on the author's real-life experience as a full-time care aide, A Funny Kind of Paradise is the life-affirming story of Francesca, a 70-year-old woman who has had a stroke and is living in an Extended Care facility – for fans of Lisa Genova and My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout

Once a fiercely independent businesswoman and overwhelmed single mother of two, now Francesca is voiceless, bedridden, partially paralyzed, and wholly reliant on care aides – and as she speaks in her mind to Anna, a beloved friend who died two years earlier, readers are drawn into Fran's inner world and begin to see the person she was and the person she is becoming, while the lives and dramas of the care aides and fellow patients come into sharp focus, as well as the monotony, indignity, flashes of joy and comedy

A vividly conjured novel about losses, joys and regrets, and an unlikely opportunity for reinvention--for love, acceptance and closure