Minus Me

Annie and Sam are childhood sweethearts living in small-town Maine. They run Annie's, a gourmet sandwich shop famous locally for the Paul Bunyan Special, a hearty and far from healthy creation that has kept them in business, happily married and known around town. Annie is capable and devoted, and Sam is handsome, loving and comically hopeless.

Then Annie receives a frightening medical diagnosis, and her life is turned upside down. Her biggest worry is how Sam will manage without her, so she begins writing a step-by-step how-to manual for his future on his own. She even starts thinking about who might take her place in his heart and in their bed.

Her plans stall when her mother, Ursula, a Manhattan diva, arrives unexpectedly and brings her own chaos and disruption. Minus Me is a poignant, funny novel about marriage, the burdens of a mother's love, and the courage to face mortality.