TY - BOOK AU - Hoffman,Alice TI - Faithful SN - 9781476799209 AV - PS3558.O3447 F35 2016 U1 - 813/.6 23 PY - 2016/// CY - New York PB - Simon & Schuster KW - Fiction. KW - FICTION / Contemporary Women KW - FICTION / Psychological KW - FICTION / Magical Realism KW - Guilt KW - Fiction KW - Female friendship KW - fast KW - New York (N.Y.) KW - New York (State) KW - New York KW - Psychological fiction KW - gsafd KW - lcgft N2 - Growing up on Long Island, Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl until one night an extraordinary tragedy changes her fate. Her best friend's future is destroyed in an accident, while Shelby walks away with the burden of guilt. What happens when a life is turned inside out? When love is something so distant it may as well be a star in the sky? Faithful is the story of a survivor, filled with emotion--from dark suffering to true happiness--a moving portrait of a young woman finding her way in the modern world. A fan of Chinese food, dogs, bookstores, and men she should stay away from, Shelby has to fight her way back to her own future. In New York City she finds a circle of lost and found souls--including an angel who's been watching over her ever since that fateful icy night ER -