Big Finish

One of Goodreads Top 25 Feel-Good and Escapist Books to Read in Quarantine as seen in USA Today [A] funny, winning debut. People Delightfully quirky and endearing an absolute pleasure to read! #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily GiffinMeet Duffy, an old curmudgeon who lives in an assisted living home. Meet Josie, a desperate young woman who climbs through his window. Together, they re going to learn it s never too late or too early to change your ways. For Duffy Sinclair, life boils down to one simple thing: maintaining his residence at the idyllic Centennial Assisted Living. Without it, he s destined for the roach-infested nursing home down the road and after wasting the first eighty-eight years of his life, he refuses to waste away for the rest. So, he keeps his shenanigans to the bare minimum with the help of his straight-laced best friend and roommate, Carl Upton. But when Carl s granddaughter Josie climbs through their bedroom window with booze on her breath and a black eye, Duffy s faced with trouble that s sticking around and hard to hide from Centennial s management and Josie s toxic boyfriend. Before he knows it, he s running a covert operation that includes hitchhiking and barhopping. He might as well write himself a one-way ticket to the nursing home or the morgue. Yet Duffy s all in. Because thanks to an unlikely friendship that becomes fast family his life doesn t boil down the same anymore. Not when he finally has a chance to leave a legacy. In a funny, insightful, and life-affirming debut, Brooke Fossey delivers an unflinching look at growing old, living large, and loving big, as told by a wise-cracking man who didn t see any of it coming.