The curious charms of Arthur Pepper

By Phaedra Patrick

Subjects: Self-realization, Modern and contemporary fiction (post c. 1945), Fiction, general, General, Fiction and related items, FICTION, Family Life, Literary, Charm bracelets, Widowers, Fiction, Humorous

Description: Sixty-nine-year-old Arthur Pepper lives a simple life. He gets out of bed at precisely 7:30 a.m., just as he did when his wife, Miriam, was alive. He dresses in the same gray slacks and mustard sweater vest, waters his fern, Frederica, and heads out to his garden. But on the one-year anniversary of Miriam's death, something changes. Sorting through Miriam's possessions, Arthur finds an exquisite gold charm bracelet he's never seen before. What follows is a surprising and unforgettable odyssey that takes Arthur from London to Paris and as far as India in an epic quest to find out the truth about his wife's secret life before they met--a journey that leads him to find hope, healing, and self-discovery in the most unexpected places.