The Half of It: A Novel

"Witty, tender, beautifully written, I loved being immersed in this powerful story of loss and forgiveness."   —Emily Giffin, #1 New York Times bestselling authorOne perfect night. Forty years of buried hurt. One chance to make it right. Can the past ever be fixed? With humor, heart, and grace, USA Today bestselling author Juliette Fay delivers a poignant, propulsive novel about settling the past, rekindling lost friendships, and discovering love when you least expect it.             “I’m wondering if we can be friends again.”When 58-year-old Helen Spencer reviews her life, what she sees are the mistakes. Over the years, things seemed to go sideways incrementally, one little wrong decision at a time. She can even pinpoint where it all started to go awry: a wonderous, romantic night in the woods her senior year of high school with a boy named Cal Crosby. A night she would soon work hard to forget.Forty years, one marriage, three children, and one grandbaby later, suddenly there he is—Ca