Can’t Wait Wednesday #39 - Famous In A Small Town

Can’t Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they’re books that have yet to be released. It’s based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the Jill at Breaking the Spine. So let me introduce you my Can’t Wait Wednesday #39 pick! Click on the book’s cover to add it to your Goodreads shelf.

Famous In a Small Town by Viola Shipman book cover — Publishes: June 13, 2023 by Graydon House.
Length: 352 pages.
Genre: Women’s Fiction

From The Publisher:

For most of her eighty years, Mary Jackson has endured the steady invasion of tourists, influencers and real estate developers who have discovered the lakeside charm of Good Hart, Michigan, waiting patiently for the arrival of a stranger she’s believed since childhood would one day carry on her legacy—the Very Cherry General Store. Like generations of Jackson women before her, Cherry Mary, as she’s known locally, runs the community hub—part post office, bakery and sandwich shop—and had almost given up hope that the mysterious prediction she’d been told as a girl would come true and the store would have to pass to…a man.

Becky Thatcher came to Good Hart with her ride-or-die BFF to forget that she’s just turned forty with nothing to show for it. Ending up at the general store with Mary is admittedly not the beach vacation she expected, but the more the feisty octogenarian talks about destiny, the stronger Becky’s memories of her own childhood holidays become, and the strange visions over the lake she was never sure were real. As she works under Mary’s wing for the summer and finds she fits into this quirky community of locals, she starts to believe that destiny could be real, and that it might have something very special in mind for Becky…

Why I Can’t Wait to Read Famous In A Small Town:

After reading the author’s book “A Wish For Winter” I knew I wanted to read more from this author. I enjoy books set in small town communities and the synopsis for this book has me intrigued to read more about Good Hart and its locals.

Does this book sound like one you’d like to read? Or, have you been lucky enough to have already read it? Let me know in the comments!