The Road to Tender Hearts: A Novel

Name: The Road to Tender Hearts: A Novel
Rating: 8.09 (455 reviews)
ISBN: 9780593873441

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: 8.09

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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.

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

CristinaB

Mar 09, 2026

5 star book, great story about 2nd chances and chosen family