The Road to Tender Hearts: A Novel

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A darkly comic and warm-hearted novel about an old man on a cross-country mission to reunite with his high school crush—bringing together his adult daughter, two orphaned kids, and a cat who can predict death—by the beloved author of Rabbit Cake and Unlikely Animals

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Published Apr 29, 2025

400 pages

Average rating: 8.08

503 RATINGS

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Readers say *The Road to Tender Hearts* offers a masterful, fast-paced blend of complicated family dynamics, quirky kids, love, death, and relationshi...

Larry Burns
Mar 27, 2026
7/10 stars
Rather dark.
AudraMiracle
Jan 22, 2026
10/10 stars
5 star book
boyleschris
Dec 14, 2025
Ron's recommendation.
amysab68
Apr 20, 2026
8/10 stars
Great book. Funny. Heartwarming. Hard to put down.
LucyCarrillo
Mar 29, 2026
9/10 stars
If you love complicated family dynamics, interesting and quirky kids, love, death, cats, relationships… This is it. This book truly had it all. And I could not put it down.  This author covered so many subjects, and did it so quickly and adeptly I don’t even know how. She could put something into a sentence and then move on to something totally different. But you were able to deal with it and move along with her to that next sentence. Quite masterful!! Fun, funny, I can’t praise it high enough 

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