Her life turned upside down by a grim diagnosis, a small-town Maine woman sets about writing a How To life manual for her handsome yet hapless husband in a novel Elinor Lipman ( Good Riddance, On Turpentine Lane ) calls smart, funny-quirky, and so very satisfying.
Annie and her devoted but comically incompetent childhood sweetheart Sam are the owners and operators of Annie's, a gourmet sandwich shop, home to the legendary Paul Bunyan Special Sandwich--their n.