The Bright Side of Disaster: A Novel

Very pregnant & not quite married, Jenny Harris doesn't mind that she & her live-in fiancé, Dean, accidentally started their family a little earlier than planned. But Dean is acting distant, & the night he runs out for cigarettes & doesn't come back, he demotes himself from future husband to sperm donor. And the very next day, Jenny goes into labor.

In the months that follow, Jenny plunges into a life she never anticipated: single motherhood. At least with the sleep deprivation, sore boobs, & fits of crying (both hers & the baby's), there's not much time to dwell on her broken heart. And things are looking up: Jenny learns how to do everything one-handed, makes friends in a mommy group, & even gets to know a handsome, helpful neighbor. But Dean is never far from Jenny's thoughts or, it turns out, her doorstep, & in the end she must choose between the old life she thought she wanted & the new life she's been lucky to find.

"The Bright Side of Disaster is a treat of a book. It is so warm, so smart, so touching, so wise-and, despite its poignancy, you read the whole thing with a laugh in your throat." -Anna Maxted, author of A Tale of Two Sisters 

"A funny & poignant novel about love, motherhood & men . . . elevates the subject matter beyond the realm of 'mommy lit.' " -Houston Chronicle

BookPage calls Katherine Center “the reigning queen of comfort reads.” Katherine writes laugh-and-cry books about how life knocks us down—& how we get back up. She’s been compared to both Jane Austen & Nora Ephron, & the Dallas Morning News calls her stories, “satisfying in the most soul-nourishing way.” Her books have made countless Best-Of lists,...