Patience, My Dear
Simon & Schuster/Atria/Infinite Words
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Patience Kelleher doesn’t want to be a soldier of the Lord. She doesn’t want His voice in her head, and she certainly doesn’t want Him texting her emoticon-laden messages about boy band singers and sinister solar power corporations. What would a cranky, twenty-three-year-old waitress know about preventing the Apocalypse? He’s got believers for that sort of thing, or the Army. All Patience wants is to keep a job she actually likes, and to try to avoid falling for her confounding new neighbor if at all possible. When the Lord enlists said neighbor to convince her to step up, it doesn’t brighten her mood. That was dirty pool.
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Zane Grey Ellison doesn’t particularly want to be a soldier of the Lord either, but he’s open to discussion. His world’s been pretty skewed since he abandoned his father’s estate, and his preoccupation with the waitress across the street hasn’t helped him regain his equilibrium. The texts she’s receiving from an iPhone obsessed God don’t seem all that much more wondrous to him than his discovery of diner food, or the realization that not every girl in the world can be impressed by a Bugatti Veyron. If she’d just stop bickering with the Lord for a minute, they might even stand a chance of getting the job done.
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Patience fights to keep her sanity as Zane fights to keep the peace, determined not to let the world die…
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Not when it’s just getting good.
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“A novel about a God who pesters the heroine through impudent text messages could go wrong in so many ways. It is a matter of celebration that Bower Lewis is clever enough to bring it off. Her first novel is witty and fast-paced, throwing off the kind of sparks that promise a great career in the world of fiction. It’s too bad Frank Capra’s not around to make the movie!”
— Mark Childress, author of New York Times bestseller Georgia Bottoms and Crazy in Alabama
“Fast cars, women with pink hair, guns, questionable politics, love, tequila, and missions from God? And all in one place? No, this isn’t Ted Nugent’s Excellent Adventure! This is Patience, My Dear, which just may be the best whacky, quirky, irreverent, God-texting caper I’ve read since The Bible! Seriously, though. If you can’t stand being serious, you’ll love this book!”
— Garth Stein, author of New York Times bestseller The Art of Racing in the Rain
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