A Forty Year Kiss: A Novel

From the bestselling author of Shotgun Lovesongs comes a rugged feel-good valentine, a small-town novel for readers who still believe in sunset triumph and second chances

Charlie and Vivian parted ways after just four years of marriage. Too many problems, too many struggles. When Charlie returns to Wisconsin forty years later, he’s not sure what he’ll find. He is sure of one thing—he must try to reconnect with Vivian to pick up the broken pieces of their past. But forty years is a long time. It’s forty years of other relationships, forty years of building new lives, and forty years of long-held regrets, mistakes, and painful secrets. An accomplished exploration of starting over and sunset triumph, A Forty-Year Kiss is a novel in the tradition of Kent Haruf's Our Souls at Night.This is a literary valentine that promises to become a love-story for the ages.

About the Author

NICKOLAS BUTLER is the author of the internationally bestselling novel Shotgun Lovesongs and an acclaimed collection of short stories entitled, "Beneath the Bonfire” as well as three other novels. He lives on sixteen acres of land in rural Wisconsin adjacent to a buffalo farm. He is married and has two children.