Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.
I am combining CWW with Books From the Backlog hosted by Carole at Carole's Random Life in Books. This will allow me to feature some newly "rediscovered" books, which I plan on reading, alongside a new release.
This week I can't wait for
A Forty Year Kiss by Nickolas Butler
Published by Sourcebooks Landmark on February 4, 2025
Age/Genres: Adult, Fiction
Goodreads
From the critically acclaimed author of Shotgun Lovesongs comes an exquisitely written, small-town story about one couple's hard-won second chance at love, forty years after their divorce.
Charlie and Vivian parted ways after just four years of marriage. Too many problems, too many struggles, even though the love didn't quite die. When Charlie returns to Wisconsin forty years later, he's not sure what he'll find. He is sure of one thing -- he must try to reconnect with Vivian to pick up the broken pieces of their past. But forty years is a long time. It's forty years of other relationships, forty years of building new lives, and forty years of long-held regrets, mistakes, and painful secrets.
A brave and triumphant exploration of redemption and sunset triumph, A Forty Year Kiss is a once-in-a-lifetime love story, written with dazzling lyricism and remarkable clarity of spirit, from a celebrated author at the top of his game. It's a literary valentine that promises to be a love story for the ages.
I am trash for second chance romance, and here we have a divorced couple getting their second chance FORTY YEARS LATER!!! That right there is amazing, that they carried their love for each other for that long. This sounds like it has the potential to be a very emotional story to me.
Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa
Published by Oneworld Publications on February 6, 2013
Age/Genres: Adult, Fiction
Goodreads
Sentaro has failed. He has a criminal record, drinks too much, and his dream of becoming a writer is just a distant memory. With only the blossoming of the cherry trees to mark the passing of time, he spends his days in a tiny confectionery shop selling dorayaki, a type of pancake filled with sweet bean paste.
Until, that is, Tokue comes into his life. An elderly woman with disfigured hands and a troubled past, she makes the best sweet bean paste Sentaro has ever tasted. The unlikeliest of friendships blossoms, but it will take all of their resolve – and plenty of pancakes – to protect themselves when Tokue's dark secret comes to light.
I remember seeing this one around, and readers only had good things to say about it. Then it sat on my TBR for a looooong time. With the amount of East Asian literature I read and enjoyed last year, it seems like the right time to read this for myself. I also love that the story includes an unlikely and cross-generational friendship. Those are always so special for me, and I look forward to learning more about Tokue's dark secret.
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