The Last Seat at Sunday Dinner

His wife is gone. Her dinner guests keep coming.After Miriam's funeral, Samuel expects quiet. Instead, a woman arrives on his doorstep carrying his wife's chipped blue baking dish. More guests follow. Before she died, Miriam had invited them to Sunday dinner.At sixty-four, Samuel can repair an engine and find a job that needs doing whenever a conversation gets uncomfortable. He has no idea what to do with a roomful of people who refuse to let him eat alone.With the family home headed for sale, the dinners have an end date. Six Sundays. Enough time to share a few meals, surely, without letting anyone get too close.But each guest brings more than food. And when his daughter, Leah, returns to the table, Samuel must face the distance between them and learn to listen without reaching for something to fix.Warm, quietly funny, and tender about the untidy work of grief, The Last Seat at Sunday Dinner is a contemporary novel about unlikely friendship, family reconciliation, and finding a place to belong. It is a story for readers who love ordinary people, difficult conversations, and hope that grows through small acts of care.