Title: One Summer
Description: Jack, terminally ill and preparing to say goodbye to his family, has a miraculous recovery after his wife is killed in a car accident and struggles to reunite his family at her childhood home on the South Carolina oceanfront.

Jack, terminally ill, is helpless when his wife is killed and his three children are sent to live with family members. A miraculous turn of events puts him on the road to recovery and he sets out to put his family back together.
Subjects: Widowers, Death, Families, Custody of children, Family life, Fiction, Loss (Psychology), Life change events, Parents, Family relationships, Terminally ill, Fiction, family life, Widowers, fiction, nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-fiction=2011-07-03, New York Times bestseller, Fiction, family life, general