Recent Listen: You Can Thank Me Later: A Novella by Kelly Harms

You Can Thank Me Later: A Novella by Kelly Harms
Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
Original Recording Audiobook
Release date: 10-31-19
Language: English
Publisher: Audible Original
Categories: Fiction, Contemporary

 

Format: Audible Audiobook
Source: From Audible as a Freebie in November 2019.

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Goodreads Synopsis: 

A short and sweet audio novella that'll leave listeners wanting second helpings, You Can Thank Me Later follows an unforgettable family over the course of three Thanksgivings.
When the Dickenson clan sits down for Thanksgiving dinner in 2016, it is the last holiday when their tight-knit family will ever be the same. Oldest brother Pete and his wife are expecting their first child. Youngest sibling Sophie is too busy running her restaurant, The Little Plum, to bother with any kind of social life. And middle child Charlie's happy, uncomplicated life as a Midwestern science professor is upended when his wife Annette is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Knowing this will be her last Thanksgiving, Annette asks Sophie to look after Charlie after she's gone. Which would be a lot easier if Charlie didn't show up with an insufferable new girlfriend at the next holiday meal.
From the best-selling author of The Overdue Life of Amy Byler, this heartwarming novella embraces the spirit and gratitude of the holiday, and shows how a family's love can endure anything.

Review: 
This freebie novella from Audible was a good listen, albeit pretty sad and a little depressing. It is always good to know that your family is not always the crazy one, and this story once again proves it. In this novella we follow a family through a few years of Thanksgiving and how it changes. In the first Thanksgiving we learn that Sophie's sister-in-law is diagnosed with a terminal illness, that is followed by the grief and acceptance of her death in the Thanksgivings to come.

There were a lot of emotions while listening to this audiobook. While I enjoyed it overall, it was a lot.  If you like books about grief and then growth this is a short listen and it is that. Getting to that point it rough though. I found Sophie the main character to be a bit annoying, judgmental, and really wanted to slap sense into her for about half of the book. Eventually she comes around but not after being a pain to all those around her. 

I am glad this was a freebie, otherwise I would not have picked it up, but it was a nice, short listen, and I think it was good story.