The Good Luck of Right Now

Brief Description: "Tracks every 3 minutes for easy bookmarking"--Container. Brief Description: For thirty-eight years, Bartholomew Neil has lived with his mother. When she gets sick and dies, he has no idea how to be on his own. His redheaded grief counselor, Wendy, says he needs to find his flock and leave the nest. But how does a man whose whole life has been grounded in his mom, Saturday mass, and the library learn how to fly? Bartholomew thinks he's found a clue when he discovers a "Free Tibet" letter from Richard Gere hidden in his mother's underwear drawer. In her final days, she called him Richard--there must be a cosmic connection. Believing the actor is meant to help him, Bartholomew awkwardly starts his new life, writing Richard Gere a series of highly intimate letters. But mostly the letters reveal one man's heartbreakingly earnest attempt to assemble a family of his own. A struggling priest; a "girlbrarian" and her feline-loving, foul-mouthed brother; and the spirit of Richard Gere join the quest to help Bartholomew find where he belongs. In a rented Ford Focus, they travel to Canada to see the cat Parliament and find Bartholomew's biological father--and discover so much more. Publisher Marketing: From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Silver Linings Playbook" comes a funny and tender story about family, friendship, grief, acceptance, and Richard Gere. For thirty-eight years, Bartholomew Neil has lived with his mother. When she gets sick and dies, he has no idea how to be on his own. His redheaded grief counselor, Wendy, says he needs to find his flock and leave the nest. But how does a man whose whole life has been grounded in his mom, Saturday mass, and the library learn how to fly? Bartholomew thinks he s found a clue when he discovers a Free Tibet letter from Richard Gere hidden in his mother s underwear drawer. In her final days, she called him Richard there must be a cosmic connection. Believing the actor is meant to help him, Bartholomew awkwardly starts his new life, writing Richard Gere a series of highly intimate letters. Jung and the Dalai Lama, philosophy and faith, alien abduction and cat telepathy, the Catholic Church and the mystery of women are all explored in his soul-baring epistles. But mostly the letters reveal one man s heartbreakingly earnest attempt to assemble a family of his own. A struggling priest; a girlbrarian and her feline-loving, foul-mouthed brother; and the spirit of Richard Gere join the quest to help Bartholomew find where he belongs. In a rented Ford Focus, they travel to Canada to see the cat Parliament and find Bartholomew s biological father and discover so much more. Review Citations:

Audio File 06/01/2014 pg. 33 (EAN 9781482991901, Compact Disc) - *Starred Review

Publishers Weekly 12/23/2013 pg. 29 (EAN 9780062326324, Paperback)

Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/01/2013 pg. 82 (EAN 9780062285539, Hardcover)

Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2013 (EAN 9780062285539, Hardcover) - *Starred Review

Publishers Weekly 12/23/2013 (EAN 9780062285539, Hardcover)

Booklist 01/01/2014 pg. 40 (EAN 9780062285539, Hardcover)

Entertainment Weekly 01/17/2014 pg. 47 (EAN 9780062285539, Hardcover)

Library Journal 02/01/2014 pg. 68 (EAN 9780062285539, Hardcover)

Entertainment Weekly 02/14/2014 pg. 69 (EAN 9780062285539, Hardcover)

Shelf Awareness 02/21/2014 (EAN 9780062285539, Hardcover)

People Weekly 03/10/2014 pg. 58 (EAN 9780062285539, Hardcover)

Bookpage 02/01/2014 (EAN 9780062285539, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Quick, Matthew MATTHEW QUICK (aka Q) is the New York Times bestselling author of several novels, including The Silver Linings Playbook, which was made into an Oscar-winning film, and The Good Luck of Right Now. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has received a PEN/Hemingway Award Honorable Mention, among other accolades. Q lives with his wife, novelist-pianist Alicia Bessette, in North Carolina. Contributor Bio:  Wyman, Oliver Oliver Wyman, a native New Yorker, has appeared on stage as well as in film, and television. He is one of the founders of New York City's Collective Unconscious theater, and his performances include the award-winning "reality play" "Charlie Victor Romeo" and A. R. McElhinney's cult classic film "A Chronicle of Corpses". He also lent his voice to several episodes of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Oliver's work as a narrator extends to over 150 audiobooks and has won many him awards, including Audie awards for his reading of Lance Armstrong's autobiography, "It's Not About the Bike", and Thomas L. Friedman's "The World is Flat". He also read James Frey's "A Million Little Pieces", Tim Dorsey's "Atomic Lobster", and David Weber's "By Schism Rent Asunder". Oliver has won five Audie Awards from the Audio Publisher's Association, fourteen Earphone Awards from "AudioFile""Magazine", and two Listen Up Awards from "Publisher's Weekly. "Oliver was named a 2008 Best Voice in Nonfiction & Culture by "AudioFile Magazine".