"This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival." —Rumi
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In Guest House, the pull of a shy imaginative boy changes Melba Burns' solo life forever.
When Melba witnesses a terrible accident, she parks her car, quits her job and retreats into her farmhouse in search of peace. But peace and Melba’s new roommate, JoLee Garry, have never met. JoLee brings boyfriends, booze and chaos into Melba’s household, not to mention an alcoholic husband who has kidnapped their son Matt. By opening her doors to this troubled family, Melba begins to see the enormous capacity of her own heart. |
"The one Oprah missed," says Anna Nair. "A touching story of salvation
that would do any book club proud." --Shelf Unbound Magazine
What Readers are Saying about Guest House
"GUEST HOUSE is perhaps the most rapid-fire novel of domestic hopeand strife you’re likely to read all summer."
--Ben Fulton,THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
"In this remarkably generous novel Barbara Richardson chronicles not only the betrayals
and sorrows of the human heart, but the love and hope and caring that heals it."
--Molly Gloss, author of THE HEARTS OF HORSES
"No way are books dead. Not with writers like this out there."
--Jesse Kornbluth, HEAD BUTLER
"Richardson, who is part comedienne, part landscape artist and part Zen master, reveals
the vulnerability of her characters with utmost delicacy . . . there is salvation here,
and it happens in this addictively-readable and often hilarious novel."
--Lisa Jones, author of BROKEN: A LOVE STORY
