The Answer Is Yes — Sara Lewis

Jenny Brown has three simple wishes: a happy marriage, a job she loves, and a reunion with her birth mother. But after moving from academic Cambridge to suburban San Diego, Jenny finds her husband distracted with work, she loses her job, and she can't locate her biological mother. Just when life seems hopeless, Jenny stumbles into the Institute of Affirmation, an adult education center offering oddball courses such as Homecooking for Pets and the Bad Habits Support Group. The institute really isn't Jenny's kind of place, yet she finds herself returning there again and again. Could it be that the Institute of Affirmation and its charming director, Michael, have what she needs after all?