The Last Beach Bungalow be Jennie Nash

by Jennie Nash
(Los Angeles, CA)

With the style of a poet and the strength of a survivor, Jennie Nash delivers her first novel "a poignant tale of what makes a house a home, a body a person, and people living under one roof a family"

FOR SALE: THE LAST BEACH BUNGALOW
The owner of this 1928 original bungalow is seeking a buyer with heart. What would you give (besides money) to live here? Bring your offers, your stories, and a promise to preserve and protect. Winner will pay $300,000. Open House, Saturday 1 to 4.

After five years cancer-free, April Newton should be celebrating, but instead she's suffering. She feels her husband slipping away, and though the spectacular, stylish house he?s building for her should be a fresh start, April finds herself resenting it. As their move-in date approaches, she becomes obsessed with winning the right to buy the last Redondo Beach bungalow, convinced that the quirky, lived-in little house represents everything she is missing in her life?comfort, completeness, survival. And though her quest for the bungalow will take some surprising twists, it may put back together the pieces of her heart?

A Berkley Trade Paperback Original. Go to www.jennienash.com to read an excerpt.