THE ROAD TO DALTON

HAPPY (almost) THANKSGIVING!
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This year I’m feeling especially grateful for books that are a bit under the bookstagram radar, but found their way onto my TBR stack and into my heart.
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One is The Road to Dalton, a beautiful, big-hearted novel about the residents of a small town in Maine and their intersecting lives. A respected doctor is at a crossroads in his marriage and career. A teenager is conflicted about his identity. An earnest police officer is blind to his wife’s emotional struggles. These characters feel absolutely real, like people you’ve always known somehow. In this book, you will feel their joys, challenges, heartaches and hopes, and you’ll miss them when you turn the last page. Thankfully, though, this is not goodbye: The Road to Dalton is book one in a series, and I can’t wait to read more.
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Side note, this is the 6th book I’ve read this year set in Maine. What?! Are you also finding that Maine is a recurring setting in your latest books? I spent childhood summers at sleepaway camp in Maine and these stories take me back!
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A Dalton Diner specialty is apple pie with plenty of cinnamon, served warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. I had hoped to bake one for this post and for Thanksgiving, but an injury has kept me out of the kitchen. So I found an old favorite pie photo and substituted a key ingredient: the book! Sometimes we have to improvise on holidays and roll with the unexpected - this photo now has a new “recipe” and I’m so thankful I can share this lovely book with you all.