Eddie’s Boy

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Published by: Warren Publishing, Inc
Release Date: February 1, 2021
Pages: 400
ISBN13: 978-1735860015

  

Synopsis

On April 30, 2007, a small car and a truck simultaneously enter an intersection in Charleston, South Carolina. The driver of the car is Landon Ratliff, a physician/professor with a strong professional identity and work ethic unmatched in his emotionally guarded personal life. Exhausted from his latest girlfriend’s surprise overnight visit, he runs a red light and is critically injured on the morning of his fortieth birthday. His hospitalization reveals additional problems that contribute to his instantaneous midlife crisis.

Landon’s injuries thrust his girlfriend, Luna Quinn, into the role of reluctant caregiver. They struggle, individually and together, with roles for which neither was emotionally prepared. When Luna accompanies Landon to New Orleans (where he completed medical training) for treatment, the city’s post-Katrina transformation inflicts further emotional trauma.

Though he is slow to see it and slower to admit it to himself, Landon eventually finds, to his amazement, that his path to healing and recovery is Luna. When his father falls ill with a terminal diagnosis, the lessons he’s learned from Luna help him navigate a path—through unspoken secrets and long silences—back to his family, a rediscovery he never thought possible.


 

Praise

"A poignant story of redemption that addresses the depth of love and what it takes to make amends. A sweet and hopeful novel that is beautifully written."

Lynne Hinton, NYT Bestselling Author, Friendship Cake

 

"A compelling and heartwarming read about the connections between family, love, and the things that really matter. It’s really a wonderful story.”

Lee Woodruff, NYT Bestselling Author, Those We Love Most

 

"Schwab's story deserves more readers. It has prose that is compelling and evocative...Schwab provides the reality of complex relationships but in a way that is redemptive. It becomes a spiritual journey that gives you the reassurance that humanity is not yet a lost cause. Landon's path toward healing glows as the story moves along. Eddie's Boy is a story about personal happiness. It becomes a must-read because it weaves a spell over the magic and triumph of getting into middle age."

Readers' Favorite

 

“Literary readers who enjoy novels about pivot points in life that lead characters in new directions will appreciate Eddie’s Boy, which comes full circle to lead an esteemed doctor to heal himself, opening up his life to new possibilities and the warm embrace of a different depth of love.”

Midwest Book Review

 

                                                                                               

 

 

 


Excerpt

When the clock struck midnight on Monday, April 30, 2007, Dr. Landon Ratliff’s fortieth birthday had been lost, thwarting everyone’s expectations, including his own. The milestone had been a source of private dread for Landon and a focus of preparatory excitement for the office staff, but both apprehension and anticipation had been for naught. Eventually, Landon would see his elaborately decorated office, but only in photos taken to memorialize the staff’s mischief. He would never taste the customized cola cake from Jestine’s. It had not even been sliced; in the aftershock, no one had an appetite, and freezing it had seemed way too hopeful. Also lost was the perfect Charleston afternoon that drifted toward a glorious spring evening full of vivid bloom, an evening that should have been filled with promise, but was not, since the private happy hour and dinner at The Lot had been canceled. The crowd at The Pour House next door was forty people short for the live show that night. All the hope and joy of the planning and all of Landon’s foreboding had been wasted because, precisely forty years after the uncomplicated birth of the third child of Eddie and Iris Ratliff, he had been lying unconscious on a gurney in the emergency department at the Medical University of South Carolina with a breathing tube inserted into his windpipe to prevent him from choking on his own vomit.