Golden Girl

The New York Times called Golden Girl Elin Hilderbrand's best novel—and I can't contradict that.

Novelist Vivian Howe is untimely killed in a hit and run, and in her boho-chic viewing room in the sky she is awarded three nudges to help those closest to her while they process her death. This story follows a large cast of characters, all with different connections to Vivi, her children, her ex-lovers, and what really blew me away is that I wanted to know what was going to happen with every single one of them. Many authors struggle to pose two or three pressing story questions in a novel, but in Golden Girl there were... eight? Maybe more? I was completely invested in each storyline, and I didn't see the twists coming. A deeply satisfying read with a theme so beautiful, it had me in tears. Five stars. All the way.