By Heather Lende

ISBN-10: 1616204958

ISBN-13: 9781616204952

As the obituary author in a spectacularly attractive yet usually harmful spit of land in Alaska, Heather Lende understands anything approximately final phrases and lives good lived. Now she’s distilled what she’s discovered approximately tips to dwell a extra exhilarating and significant lifestyles into 3 phrases: locate the great. It’s that simple--and that hard.

Quirky and profound, person and common, Find the great offers up brief chapters that aid us unlearn the habit--and it's a habit--of seeing in basic terms the negatives. Lende reminds us that we will be able to decide to see any event--starting a brand new task or being laid off from an previous one, getting married or getting divorced--as a chance to discover the nice. As she says, “We are all writing our personal obituary each day by means of how we are living. the simplest information is that there’s nonetheless time for additions and revisions prior to it is going to press.”

Ever in view that Algonquin released her first e-book, the ny Times bestseller If You Lived the following, I’d comprehend Your Name, Heather Lende has been praised for her storytelling expertise and her plainspoken knowledge. The Los Angeles Times referred to as her “part Annie Dillard, half Anne Lamott,” and that comparability hasn't ever been extra apt as she provides us a clean, optimistic viewpoint from which to view our relations, our responsibilities, our priorities, our neighborhood, and our world.

An antidote to the cynicism and self-centeredness that we're bombarded with on a daily basis within the information, in our politics, or even from time to time in ourselves, Find the nice helps us rediscover what’s correct with the world.

“Heather Lende’s small city is populated with monstrous hearts--she reveals them  at the seashore, strolling her granddaughters, within the tales of normal peoples’ lives, and knits them into unforgettable stories. Find the great is a treasure.” —Jo-Ann Mapson, writer of Owen’s Daughter

“Find the Good is great corporation in unsteady instances . . . Heather Lende is the type of individual you must sit down around the kitchen desk from on a wet afternoon with a bottomless cup of tea. while issues get it wrong, while issues move correct, her quiet, common sense knowledge, self-examining frankness, and good-natured humor provide an opportunity to reset, renew, rebalance.”  —Pam Houston, writer of Contents could have Shifted

“With light humor and empathy [Lende] introduces a couple of those who supply examples of the way to dwell good . . . [Find the Good] is easy but profound.”  —Booklist

“In this cynical world, locate the Good is a tonic, a literary wellspring, so that it will proceed to run, and nurture, even in occasions of drought. What a courageous and lovely factor Heather Lende has made with this book.” —John Straley, Shamus Award winner and previous author laureate of Alaska

“Heather Lende is a very good author and great corporation: intimate, actual, and as quirky as any of her subjects.” —Marilyn Johnson, writer of The lifeless Beat