What can I say....

Elizabeth Berg just writes the best books. I breezed through "Open House." Samantha is living the perfect life. Husband, son and home. Suddenly her husband leaves her and she's got to make it on her own. She doesn't want to lose her house so she takes in boarders. One in the basement and one upstairs. First is an elderly woman. The moving man that helps her carry in the furniture becomes a friend to Samatha. He's not always a moving man. Somedays he walks dogs, some times he's a telemarketer, etc. A graduate of MIT and an astrophysist that just happens to enjoy a simple life. The elderly woman stays a couple months and then marries her gentleman friend. The tenant in the basement is a weird girl named Lavender Blue. Bad attitude about life. The next tenant for upstairs is a gay man who owns a beauty shop. Samantha goes through all the emotions that are expected of a 42 year old woman who's husband leaves. How she handles it is well worth the read.