Monday Night Writers

I just finished reading a book by Lisa Tucker, Once Upon a Day. I actually had the opportunity to meet the author at the launch of her book tour. She said her original editor, the editor she had worked with on her previous books wasn't excited about this book at all.. called it "too literary" which is apparently code for "boring." Fortunately, Lisa found another editor who loved it, and with good reason. This book was one of those can't-put-it-down stories. The main character is a cab driver who used to be a doctor with a promising career but had lost his wife and daughter in a car crash. He meets a young woman who had been brought up in an extremely sheltered environment... extemely sheltered, she'd never been outside the family compound until the day she decided she needed to go find her brother. this is the story of when these two characters come together, and how they change each other's life.I think I need to read it again, to relish the language, the words, let them simmer in my brain a bit and look at how Tucker so successfully structered a complex story into a good read.