Full name: The Seven Rules of Elvira Carr: A Novel

Author: Frances Maynard Year: 2017 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Contemporary Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781492649274 1492649279

Elvira Carr believes in rules. She also strongly believes in crisp schedules, clear guidelines, and taking people at face value. Not that the twenty-seven-year-old sees many people. After several unfortunate incidents, her overbearing mother keeps her at home. But when her mother has a stroke, Elvira is suddenly on her own. To help her navigate a world that is often puzzling, she draws up seven ironclad rules. Armed with these, a notebook full of questions, and guidance from a helpful neighbor, she takes charge of herself―and realizes that something isn't quite right about the life she thought she knew. She'll need all the courage, perseverance and curious charm she can muster to unravel the mystery of what happened to her family and to manager her own life, her way. Similar books: Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout Don't Let Me Go by Catherine Ryan Hyde We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara Have You Seen Luis Velez? by Catherine Ryan Hyde Beach Music by Pat Conroy The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards Where We Belong by Catherine Ryan Hyde Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf 600 Hours of Edward by Craig Lancaster True Places by Sonja Yoerg Freedom by Jonathan Franzen Sisters One, Two, Three by Nancy Star A Boy Made of Blocks by Keith Stuart The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster Crow Lake by Mary Lawson A Mother's Confession by Kelly Rimmer Left Neglected by Lisa Genova