The Way Life Should Be - Softcover

Kline has a perfect sense of character and timing. --Publishers Weekly

[Christina Baker Kline] is not only a deft and snappy writer, but a true cartographer of the human heart. --Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean and Still Summer

A book about love and disappointment and risk and risotto, utterly appealing on every level. --Lauren Fox, author of Still Life with Husband

A story about the way life really can be, with a little bit of luck and just the right seasoning. --Dani Shapiro

An unassumingly beautiful story of human relationships and self-discovery...the ideal page-turning light read, with a tremendous payoff. --People

"Kline has a perfect sense of character and timing."--Publishers Weekly

"[Christina Baker Kline] is not only a deft and snappy writer, but a true cartographer of the human heart."--Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean and Still Summer

"A book about love and disappointment and risk and risotto, utterly appealing on every level."--Lauren Fox, author of Still Life with Husband

"A story about the way life really can be, with a little bit of luck and just the right seasoning."--Dani Shapiro

"An unassumingly beautiful story of human relationships and self-discovery...the ideal page-turning light read, with a tremendous payoff."--People

Feeling stuck in a routine personal life and unsatisfying career, thirty-three-year-old Angela pursues a seemingly idyllic online relationship with a sailing instructor from Maine, makes an impulsive decision to relocate, and learns important truths about understanding her own heart in finding true happiness. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.