Booklist
About Accidental Happiness
January 2005

Three months after losing her young husband, Ben, Gina, who lost her younger sister at age 12, is only going through the motions. But then Ben’s ex-wife, Reese, shows up with her seven-year-old daughter, Angel. Reese isn’t sure if Ben is Angel’s father, and the child unnerves Gina, whose only argument with Ben was over children. And Reese stirs up feelings of jealousy in Gina. In spite of her emotional discomfort, Gina, who is living on Ben’s sailboat in a Charlotte marina, eventually realizes that the intrusion of these two people is bringing her back to the world of the living, and piercing the fog surrounding her. A touching novel about loss and the courage necessary to move beyond the past, Page’s tale is filled with genuine and sympathetic characters that make the reader feel vested in the outcome of the story. —Patty Engelmann
YA/M: Teens will sympathize with young Angel and her struggles to relate to strange adults. PE.