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Heart with Joy Canterbury House Publishing In Heart with Joy, fifteen year old Julian Hale’s life is turned upside down when his mother suddenly moves from North Carolina to Venice, Florida under the pretense of running her parents’ motel and finishing the novel she has been working on for years. While Julian has always been closer to his mother and wants to go with her, she tells him he has to stay with his father until the end of the school year. When Julian’s father decides to run a marathon, Julian agrees to help him train, and the two develop the sort of close relationship they've never had before. Also, with the help of an elderly neighbor who loves to spend her days bird-watching, Julian learns that the most important thing in life is to follow your heart. And Julian's heart leads him to a passion for cooking and a young cashier at the local grocery store even as his own parents drift apart. By the end of the novel, Julian is forced to choose between staying with his father and going to live with his mother. Heart with Joy is an uplifting coming of age novel about the importance of following your heart and trusting that it will take you where you need to go.
Praise for Heart with Joy "...it sometimes takes the help of other people to figure out who we truly are ourselves. This novel allows us all to look back on our own lives and realize it is not all about material things but rather what fills our hearts with joy as we try to live a more purposeful life." "Heart with Joy... reminds us that not everyone comes of age in the same way. Julian Hale... finds himself learning about adulthood, old age, death, his deepest passions, and most of all, what it means to love--family, friends, a girl named Tia, and himself. By the end of this beautifully paced narrative, he is indeed the "young man" an old lady calls him... Cushman traces Julian's development in straightforward, simple language and in doing so creates a remarkably vivid, attractive, credible, and memorable character who stays with the reader long after the book is closed." "In Heart with Joy, fifteen-year-old Julian is a budding chef who is also learning the recipe for true love... Like any beginner, he approaches cooking without knowing the tricks or shortcuts, hopeful that the result will bring joy. So it is with love, as we all know. It is a pleasure to be reminded of this in Cushman's deft, tender novel."
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