Summary:
Elderly Margaret Hughes lives alone in a mansion in Seattle with only a massive collection of valuable antiques for company. Enter Wanda Schultz, a young woman with a broken heart who has come west to search for her boyfriend. Both women are guarding dark secrets and have spent many years building up protective armor against the outside world. But as the two begin a tentative friendship, the armor begins to fall away and Margaret opens her house to Wanda. Along the way, a famous mosaic artist is born, a Holocaust survivor is reunited with her long-lost tea set, and a sad-eyed drifter finds his long-lost daughter.

I would recommend this book!

Why?
My book club just picked this novel and we all loved it. There were so many layers of theme and character that we could have talked about it for hours. Reviewers say that "Broken for You is a debut novel of infinite charm and tremendous heart that explores the risks and rewards of human connection, and the hidden strength behind things that only seem fragile. Funny, heartbreaking, and alive with a potpourri of eccentric and irresistible characters, Broken for You is a testament to the saving graces of surrogate families, and shows how far the tiniest repair jobs can go in righting the world's wrongs." We all concur!