WAITING FOR GABE
A NOVEL
By Diana Black
RELEASE DATE: October 8, 2024
The day unstoppable grief meets immovable love.
Gabe, honey, roll onto your side. Immediately Irish regrets her whisper, but the words meant for her husband slipped so naturally from her lips.
Thus 36-year-old widower Gabriel Hart’s meticulously planned day begins and continues to unfold with unexpected and heart-wrenching twists and turns. Each testing the pragmatic foster care survivor to accept life on love’s terms, including the tragic death three years before of the Harts’ nine-year-old Leesie at the hands of a hit-and-run drunk driver. As well as challenges he faces to keep the two promises he made one year ago at Irish’s deathbed—his vow to her to look into the eyes of the prisoner who took their little girl’s life and a solemn promise he made to himself.
A multilayered portrait of the transcending nature of the human condition—birth, death, love, loss, and forgiveness, this literary fiction explores matters of life-and-death, while the author’s love of humor and its life-affirming qualities create magical moments that provide a distinct perspective on the human experience. Waiting for Gabe, the pivotal day immovable grief meets unstoppable love.
Genre/category: Fiction/Ghost/Family & Relationships/Death/Grief/Bereavement
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Paperback ISBN: 9781950495566
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Review Quotes:
“Waiting for Gabe is a story of the great unraveling done by grief, how it accrues in the body and ripples outwards to all it touches. But it is also a story of how hope can find us in the most impossible of ways. Stitching together life and afterlife, Black takes readers on an emotional journey both moving and unforgettable.” —David Valdes, author of Spin Me Right Round
“In Waiting for Gabe, talented writer Diana Black weaves together a moving story of tragedy, love, redemption, and an unexpected spiritual element that successfully asks us to … believe in the possibility of intuition, premonition, and connection beyond death. Don't many of us wish that the angels in our lives—those we’ve loved and lost—could guide us, communicate with us, help us feel better on our darkest days? In Waiting for Gabe, that hope is wonderfully woven throughout a beautifully written story and within characters you feel for, root for, cry for, and ultimately, cheer for. You will be thinking about the possibilities of heaven and the lives and emotions of these characters long after you finish reading the book.” —Ginger Emas, author, writer and speaker coach
“This beautifully written story, by Diana Black, captures one man’s loss and his difficult journey of healing and redemption. Waiting for Gabe will grab your heart and refuse to let go.” —Mary Cunningham, author of Andi Anna Jones Mysteries
“Black masterfully brings to the page all of the elements of grief—the real and the surreal—and molds them into a tender tale. Waiting for Gabe illuminates the endurance of the human heart.” —Cathie Beck Cheap Cabernet: A Friendship
“Diana Black’s Waiting for Gabe goes straight to the question that gives rise to art: How can we continue to embrace Life in the face of great suffering and loss? The novel offers no easy answers. But it does tell a beautiful tale of complicated people trying, and trying again, to let the great mystery crack open their hearts.” —Matthew Sharpe, author of The Sleeping Father and You Were Wrong