The author of the Edgar nominated and ALEX Award-winning How Lucky (âan absorbing thriller with heartââPeople), blends suspense, humor, and compassion in a new novel about seven strangers and one very intense evening at a small-town Georgia pharmacy.
Lindberghâs Pharmacy is an Athens, Georgia, institutionâthe type of beloved mom and pop shop that once dotted every American town but has mostly disappeared. But Lindberghâs has recently become the object of attention of a local fourth grade teacher Tina Lamm (âMs. Lamm to my studentsâ). Tina is certain something very, very bad is happening behind its famous black door and she intends to do something about it.
Her suspicionsâand the drastic actions she plansâare the unlikely glue that will connect her to a group of six employees and customers inside the pharmacy one hot Georgia evening. They include Theo, the Lindberghâs scion with a secret of his own; Daphne, a nurse and Army veteran struggling with her faith; Jason, a local contractor uncertain how to deal with his gifted teenage son; Karson, a young lawyer and activist wrestling with a job offer that makes him uncomfortable; David, an Athens music scene lifer whose sobriety has been sorely tested by isolation; and Dorothy, a widow just beginning to regain her bearings.
The fates of these individualsâand their fateful encounter with Tina Lammâbecome intertwined in a story that is by turns funny, touching, and tense. As he did in How Lucky, Will Leitch illuminates how we live today through a story of human beings struggling to do their best.