A Season of Perfect Happiness

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“Maribeth Fischer is a novelist’s novelist. A Season of Perfect Happiness has every element: characters so real you swear they are in your life, a setting that feels like a place you’ve always known and loved, and a plot so engrossing that it takes over your every thought. I was in awe of her craft on each page, and Maribeth shows vulnerability and humanity amid struggle and pain in such life-affirming and hopeful ways. I couldn’t return to this book quickly enough each time, and I will think about Claire and her valiant journey for years to come.”
— ETHAN JOELLA, author of A Little Hope and The Same Bright Stars
“In her indelible novel, Maribeth Fischer wrestles with how to find grace in an unforgiving world.  A Season of Perfect Happiness is about love, family, and the hope we owe ourselves. It is complex and compelling, but it is also simply a beautiful book.”
— LAUREN GRODSTEIN, author of Read-with-Jenna pick We Must Not Think of Ourselves
“Exquisite. A novel so harrowing, immersive, and beautiful, you don’t so much read it as live it—and, unquestionably, love it. Never has a book better earned the word ‘perfect’ in its title.”
— LIAM CALLANAN, nationally bestselling author of When in Rome
“Maribeth Fischer’s A Season of Perfect Happiness is a gripping and emotional novel that shines an illuminating light on the complexities of motherhood. In this unflinching look at the cost of being a “good” mother, Fischer writes with astonishing sensitivity about Claire, who is struggling to dare for happiness after having done something in her past that even she finds unforgivable. I was captivated by this beautiful novel, which will stay with me for a long time.”
— KAREN DUKESS, author of The Last Book Party
“Maribeth Fischer deftly probes the fallibility of humans—mothers, specifi cally—in this utterly honest and lyrically written novel. A Season of Perfect Happiness takes the reader through seasons of every emotion and delivers, ultimately, a graceful message of forgiveness and hope. Fischer writes with both beauty and heart.”
— KAREN WINN, author of Our Little World

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