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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Notebook and A Walk to Remember, an emotionally poignant novel about the enduring legacy of first love-and the decisions that haunt us forever. Sent away at sixteen, Maggie Dawes could think only of the friends and family she left behind . . . until she met Bryce Trickett. Bryce showed her how much there was to love about the wind-swept beach town and introduced her to photography, a passion that would define the rest of her life. By 2019, Maggie is a renowned travel photographer. Unexpectedly grounded over Christmas and struggling to come to terms with a medical diagnosis, she finds herself becoming dependent on her young assistant. As they count down the last days of the season together, she tells him the story of another Christmas, decades earlier--and the love that set her on a course she never could have imagined.
- Format: TradePaperback
- Author: Sparks, Nicholas
- ISBN: 9781538781005
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 8.00 x 1.04
- Number Of Pages: 416
- Publication Year: 2026
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English
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The Wish
MELINDA S. - 4 years 9 months agoGreat book, always enjoy N. sparks stories. Will be anxious to read his next story
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“Thank you for finding me and becoming my wish somehow made true.”
Jennifer E. - 4 years 11 months agoThe Wish is a rightwing conservative morality tale in the vein of Karen Kingsbury’s Someone Like You in which author Nicholas Sparks appropriates a pregnant teen girl’s experience from the perspective of a middle age white male. Protagonist Maggie starts out as a desperate teen mother and ends up as a dying cancer victim. When she finds out she’s pregnant, abortion is vilified, single motherhood is averted, and adoption is praised as the only “virtuous” option. Frumpy, lackadaisical, low-achieving Maggie is juxtaposed with male counterparts Bryce and Mark--physically, intellectually, and morally muscular--unrealistically flawless “saviors.” “I was pretty clueless about the state of the world...and honestly didn’t care all that much. But I liked hearing him talk and he occasionally posed serious questions about serious issues. After pretending to think about it, I’d say something like, ‘That’s difficult to answer. What do you think?’ and he’d start explaining his thoughts on the matter...I’d enjoyed the sight of his muscles...It made me wish that I could be more like him.” The novel wraps up with a saccharine and predictable reunion tied with the bow of Maggie’s last words to Mark, “Thank you for finding me and becoming my wish somehow made true.” If you “wish” for a more authentic alternative, Jennifer Weiner’s That Summer is a similarly setting-based novel that tackles parallel issues with diverse characters and depth of perspective. While Sparks’ “reckoning” is the impending birth of Maggie’s baby and departure from Bryce, Weiner describes, “This is a reckoning...if I sit here and do nothing, I’m...complicit...‘Do you think you deserved what happened to you that summer?’...No girl did...I don’t think it’s about blame. It’s about what happens next….All the girls who come after us.”