The best communities can be expansive or they can be small. What is most important is that they are cohesive. Debbie Macomber’s novel Back on Blossom Street is a women’s fiction novel that takes an entire street--the titular Blossom Street--and peoples it with complex characters that kept me curious about their lives beyond the last page. Ms. Macomber’s characters immediately pull the reader into the world of Blossom Street. Even if a reader, such as myself, has never encountered Blossom Street before the reader is not left wondering about characters’ previous stories.
On Blossom Street, there is A Good Yarn; a knitting shop run by Lydia Goetz. This is the anchor of the community and where the majority of the story takes place. A Good Yarn hosts knitting classes, and this is where an unlikely cast of characters meet: Colette Blake, a widow who is running from her past; Alix Townsend, who has severe pre-wedding jitters that are not just related to marrying the love of her life; and Susannah Nelson, owner of Susannah’s Garden (next door to A Good Yarn). All characters have to come to realize that they must forgive the people that hurt them--and, in turn, forgive themselves for what they did in the past.
Debbie Macomber’s Back on Blossom Street is a novel that is outside of my typical things to read. Nevertheless, I enjoyed this novel and the journeys that all characters undergo to heal, forgive, and honor one another.
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