num_pages: 382
description: DON'T MISS THE SERIES NOW STREAMING ON APPLE TVThe New York Times bestselling author of My Sunshine Away returns with a gripping and heartfelt novel about a mysterious machine that upends a small Louisiana town asking us all to wonder if who we truly are is who we truly could be.What would you do if you knew your life's potential? That's the question facing the residents of Deerfield Louisiana when the DNAMIX machine appears in their local grocery store. It's nothing to look at reallyit resembles a plain photo booth. But its promise is With just a quick swab of your cheek and two dollars the device claims to use the science of DNA to tell you your life's potential. With enough credibility to make the townspeople curious soon the former teachers nurses and shopkeepers of Deerfield are abruptly changing course to pursue their destinies as magicians cowboys and athletesincluding the novel's main characters Douglas Hubbard and his wife Cherilyn who both believed they were perfectly happy until they realized they could dream for more....Written with linguistic grace and a sense of wonder The Big Door Prize sparkles with keen observations about what it might mean to stay true to oneself while honoring the bonds of marriage friendship and community and how the glimmer of possibility can pull these bonds apart bring them back together and make second chances possible even under the strangest of circumstances.
language: English
title: The Big Door Prize
publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons