By Heather Lende

As the obituary author in a spectacularly appealing yet frequently harmful spit of land in Alaska, Heather Lende is aware whatever approximately final phrases and lives good lived. Now she’s distilled what she’s discovered approximately easy methods to dwell a extra exhilarating and significant existence into 3 phrases: locate the great. It’s that simple--and that hard.

Quirky and profound, person and common, Find the nice offers up brief chapters that aid us unlearn the habit--and it's a habit--of seeing purely the negatives. Lende reminds us that we will decide to see any event--starting a brand new task or being laid off from an previous one, getting married or getting divorced--as a chance to discover the nice. As she says, “We are all writing our personal obituary each day by way of how we are living. the easiest information is that there’s nonetheless time for additions and revisions prior to it is going to press.”

Ever considering the fact that Algonquin released her first publication, the manhattan Times bestseller If You Lived right here, I’d recognize Your Name, Heather Lende has been praised for her storytelling expertise and her plainspoken knowledge. The Los Angeles Times known as her “part Annie Dillard, half Anne Lamott,” and that comparability hasn't ever been extra apt as she provides us a clean, optimistic standpoint from which to view our relations, our responsibilities, our priorities, our group, and our world.

An antidote to the cynicism and self-centeredness that we're bombarded with each day within the information, in our politics, or even from time to time in ourselves, Find the great helps us rediscover what’s correct with the world.

“Heather Lende’s small city is populated with sizeable hearts--she reveals them  at the seashore, strolling her granddaughters, within the tales of standard peoples’ lives, and knits them into unforgettable stories. Find the great is a treasure.” —Jo-Ann Mapson, writer of Owen’s Daughter

“Find the Good is great corporation in unsteady instances . . . Heather Lende is the type of individual you need to take a seat around the kitchen desk from on a wet afternoon with a bottomless cup of tea. whilst issues get it wrong, whilst issues cross correct, her quiet, common-sense knowledge, self-examining frankness, and good-natured humor provide an opportunity to reset, renew, rebalance.”  —Pam Houston, writer of Contents can have Shifted

“With mild humor and empathy [Lende] introduces a few those that supply examples of ways to dwell good . . . [Find the Good] is straightforward but profound.”  —Booklist

“In this cynical world, locate the Good is a tonic, a literary wellspring, with a view to proceed to run, and nurture, even in instances of drought. What a courageous and gorgeous factor Heather Lende has made with this book.” —John Straley, Shamus Award winner and previous author laureate of Alaska

“Heather Lende is a very good author and impressive corporation: intimate, genuine, and as quirky as any of her subjects.” —Marilyn Johnson, writer of The lifeless Beat