Rewrite the Stars is about a failing marriage—one that is complicated by the husband’s post-Afghanistan PTSD. Sadie and Theo are watching their true love and dream marriage dissolve, and they must decide whether to give up or dig in and retrench.
Sadie, a working mother, spends her time taking care of everyone else, including Theo. They have filed for divorce but still share a house, though at this point, they are more friends than husband and wife or lovers. She experiences a “love at first sight” phenomenon at the grocery store and begins to see that she might have a different future. She hesitates to grasp that happiness, knowing moving on will cause Theo pain—not to mention the effects on their three children.
This novel is filled with too many coincidences. Andrew (the grocery store guy) just happens to meet Theo though they don’t realize that they are interested in the same woman. Andrew’s mother just happens to live in the same town where Theo and Sadie spend their vacations. Andrew just happens to live a few doors down from on of Sadie’s best friends, and no one realizes the neighbor and the grocery store guy are the same man. Nonetheless, this is a heart-warming story about how relationships change, how love evolves, and how we all owe it to ourselves to explore various paths to happiness. It also takes a sensitive look at PTSD and how it affects people and those around them. Theo, a war veteran with PTSD, has returned to his family a very different man. This is an all too familiar story for so many war veterans, and the novel provides a lovely example of how, though the trauma experienced cannot be undone, sometimes souls can be mended and relationships rewritten into something meaningful to all.
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