Hidden by Catherine McKenzie FIC McK

     

This was a great book.  It is a story woven together by three narrators - Claire, Tish and Jeff.  Sadly, Jeff is fatally hit walking home.  Happily,  we are still able to get his side of the story.  There are two women who are devastated when they hear the news.  The first to hear was Jeff's wife, Claire.  She tried to keep herself together for the sake of their son, Seth, but she really needs a lot of help from friends and family - and those "funeral pills" her doctor gave her.
      
Meanwhile Tish is hours away.  She has been waiting for an answer to her email.  When hours pass she begins to grow more frantic.  Finally she confides in a friend about her worry.  Has something happened to him or does he just not want to have contact with her anymore.  When she goes to work on Monday she is blindsided by an announcement - a colleague who worked in "the other Springfield" (an inside joke since there are two parts to the company and each is located in a Springfield), has died.  Tish quickly explains that she had worked with Jeff in her capacity as an H.R. person and that is why she is so upset.  It doesn't really explain why she disappoints her daughter and husband to travel to the funeral - she volunteered to be the rep from her branch of the company. 

It was a very readable book.  All three characters made mistakes but I found them all to be likeable so I was more understanding about how this whole mess came to be.