From Matthew Quick, the New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook-made into the Academy Award-winning movie starring Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper-comes a poignant and hopeful novel about a widower who takes in a grieving teenager and inspires a magical revival in their small town.

Lucas Goodgame lives in Majestic, Pennsylvania, a quaint suburb that has been torn apart by a recent tragedy. Everyone in Majestic sees Lucas as a hero-everyone, that is, except Lucas himself. Insisting that his deceased wife, Darcy, visits him every...