One of Goodreads top 25 feel-good and escapist books to read in quarantine as seen in USA Today "[a] funny, winning debut."-People "delightfully quirky and endearing...An absolute pleasure to read!"-#1new York Times bestselling author Emily giffin meet Duffy, an old curmudgeon who lives in an assisted living home. Meet Josie, a desperate young woman who climbs through his window. Together, they're going to learn it's never too late-or too early-to change your ways. For Duffy Sinclair, life boils down to one simple thing: maintaining his residence at the idyllic centennial assisted living. Without it, he's destined for the roach-infested nursing home down the road-and after wasting the first eighty-eight years of his life, he refuses to waste away for the rest. So, he keeps his shenanigans to the bare minimum with the help of his straight-laced best friend and roommate, Carl Upton. But when carl's granddaughter Josie climbs through their bedroom window with booze on her breath and a black eye, duffy's faced with trouble that's sticking around and hard to hide-from centennial's management and Josie's toxic boyfriend. Before he knows it, he's running a covert operation that includes hitchhiking and barhopping. He might as well write himself a one-way ticket to the nursing home...Or the morgue. Yet duffy's all in. Because thanks to an unlikely friendship that becomes fast family-his life doesn't boil down the same anymore. Not when he finally has a chance to leave a legacy. In a funny, insightful, and life-affirming debut, br> Brooke fossey delivers an unflinching look at growing old, living large, and loving big, as told by a wise-cracking man who didn't see any of it coming.

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