Wish You Well

by David Baldacci

Tragedy strikes the Cardinal family when their car is involved in an accident. 12 year old Lou and 7 year old Oz survive, but their father is killed and their mother is left in a coma. It is left to their great grandmother to bring them up.

• ISBN10: 0759520127
• ISBN13: 9780759520127
• Publish Date: 1 October 2000
• Publish Status: Active
• Imprint: Grand Central Publishing
• Format: eBook
• Language: English

Reviews

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This was a sweet story about a couple of kids that are given more hard knocks than they deserve. I normally don’t like it when authors switch genres (see: James Patterson, Patricia Cornwell), but this was wonderful writing from Baldacci. The ending is a little sugary-sweet-fairy-tale-ish, but it’s forgivable.

I felt a little bit of an extra connection to this story because it is set where I live. I’m not quite in coal country, but I’m on the cusp of it. People around here hold on to their way of life as fiercely now as they did then, even if that way has changed a bit. I can also appreciate Louisa Mae’s connection with the land, since my own family made their living from the land for a long time.