Product Description
Discover a hopeful, life-affirming story of listening, resilience, and community healing in the paperback edition.
- Meet Alice Mertens, seventy-two, who launches a new mission as a Friendship Bench peer counselor at a local hospital, offering patient listening and encouragement.
- Inspired by Zimbabwe’s bench tradition, the novel translates a global mental-health concept into a Midwestern setting where neighbors reunite after the pandemic.
- Explore the emotional landscape of fear, hope, faith, and everyday triumphs as strangers on a bench share burdens and celebrate small wins.
- Paperback edition by Jeffrey McClain Jones, 254 pages, compact 8.5 x 5.5 inch format with a 0.58 inch thickness, published August 30, 2021.
- Delivers a warm, character-driven narrative that invites readers to reconsider talking as a form of care and to see community listening as a bridge to healing.
Care/fit: Paperback format—compact and comfortable to hold, with dimensions 0.58 x 8.5 x 5.5 in.
Shipping/returns reassurance: Ships in standard publication packaging with a straightforward return policy.
