One Summer

By David Baldacci

Subjects: Family life, nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-fiction=2011-07-03, Fiction, Custody of children, Families, Terminally ill, Fiction, family life, Loss (Psychology), Widowers, Parents, New York Times bestseller, Death, Widowers, fiction, Life change events, Fiction, family life, general, Family relationships

Description: Jack, terminally ill and preparing to say goodbye to his family, has a miraculous recovery after his wife is killed in a car accident and struggles to reunite his family at her childhood home on the South Carolina oceanfront. Jack, terminally ill, is helpless when his wife is killed and his three children are sent to live with family members. A miraculous turn of events puts him on the road to recovery and he sets out to put his family back together.