“North of South Haven is a tender, expansive novel about the long way home and the people who meet us there. North Cooper flees the wreckage of her marriage and drives toward the only compass point she can trust: the Lake Michigan town that shaped her childhood. What she finds on these shores is not just memory but rediscovery—delivered with humor, heartbreak, and the unconditional love of Aunt El.  

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       This is a story about how the landscape of our youth can both wound and repair us; how an act of kindness can reroute a life; and how, even in our most broken moments, we may stumble into a version of home that fits better than the one we left behind. Anchored in place, and written with a keen eye for the small gestures that change everything, North of South Haven reminds us that the world often offers second chances. We just have to be brave enough to turn toward them.”

 

----Doug Stanton, #1 New York Times bestselling author of In Harm's Way: The Sinking of  the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of its Survivors  and The Horse Soldiers