From the critically acclaimed author of Shotgun Lovesongs comes an exquisitely written, small-town story about one couples hard-won second chance at love, forty years after their divorce.
Charlie and Vivian parted ways after just four years of marriage. Too many problems, too many struggles, even though the love didnt quite die. When Charlie returns to Wisconsin forty years later, hes not sure what hell find. He is sure of one thing he must try to reconnect with Vivian to pick up the broken pieces of their past. But forty years is a long time. Its forty years of other relationships, forty years of building new lives, and forty years of long-held regrets, mistakes, and painful secrets.
A brave and triumphant exploration of redemption and sunset triumph, A Forty Year Kiss is a once-in-a-lifetime love story, written with dazzling lyricism and remarkable clarity of spirit, from a celebrated author at the top of his game. Its a literary valentine that promises to be a love story for the ages.
