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Picked up at local BC "library"

Thanks ever so RustyReader2.

For Katherine Givens and the four women about to become her best friends, the adventure begins with a UPS package. Inside is a pair of red sneakers filled with ashes and a note that will forever change their lives. Katherine’s oldest and dearest friend, the irrepressible Annie Freeman, left one final request–a traveling funeral–and she wants the most important women in her life as “pallbearers.”

From Sonoma to Manhattan, Katherine, Laura, Rebecca, Jill, and Marie will carry Annie’s ashes to the special places in her life. At every stop there’s a surprise encounter and a small miracle waiting, and as they whoop it up across the country, attracting interest wherever they go, they share their deepest secrets–tales of broken hearts and second chances, missed opportunities and new beginnings. And as they grieve over what they’ve lost, they discover how much is still possible if only they can unravel the secret Annie left them....

A nice enough story, I suppose, & the first half was reasonably entertaining, but the second half bored me by reiterating the earlier messages ad nauseum. The premise seemed sound - celebrate the life of a friend who has died - but the dialogue, diary thoughts and Annie-worship just became too saccharine to stomach & I ended up skimming to the end.

On a table at the cafe.