What's Left is Hope - Paperback

by Heather Leross (Author)

I've thought a lot about what dying is like over my thirty-eight years. Not obsessively, but probably more than the average person. It's understandable, given the childhood I had ...

Hope Lawton was 13 when she watched paramedics lift her lifeless mother into the ambulance and drive away. She's spent the past 25 years running from that memory and the guilt over her role in what happened, all while trying to build the perfect family. But the perfect life ends when her husband leaves her for another woman. As she tries to navigate this new life, help her two boys process their pain, keep a job on the line, care for her ailing dad, and survive it all in pants that feel like sausage casing, Hope knows things need to change.

She decides to embrace a total life makeover, including opening herself up to new friendships, a possible new love interest, pants that let her breathe, and processing her past by journaling to her celebrity idol. She even manages to refrain from running over her ex and enrolls in an online writing group to pursue her dream of writing something other than her grocery list.

Life is finally looking up until she receives an email that forces her to question everything she's believed to be true.

What's Left is Hope explores the freedom that comes from letting go of shame, expectations, and secrets and opening ourselves to new possibilities. Told with humor, heart, and ultimately, hope, Heather LeRoss offers a perfect-ish look at the power of friendship and self-acceptance.