The Magician's Assistant

I just finished a delightful book, The Magician's Assitant by Ann Patchett. I'm not sure where I got this one. I found it on my bookshelf and it seemed to interesting. I started reading it waiting it in carline on Thursday afternoon. I finished it this afternoon. It is a compelling story of love and loss. Well, you can read the reviews yourself at the link above. The general plot though is of a woman discovering, after the death of her spouse, that he had a whole past life she never knew about. In this past and the family she discovers a way to handle her grief and move on with her life. It was a page turner. If I hadn't had to work all weekend I probably could of read it in one day. It reminded me pleasantly of The Time Traveler's Wife. The beginning was very depressing, I must warn you. But I couldn't put it down and the book does end happily if not very satisfactorily. (I didn't want it to end.)