A quiet stranger arrives in Golden, Georgia—and somehow leaves the whole town softer.
Theo is polite, reserved, and impossible to pin down. But at a local coffee shop, he discovers ninety-two pencil portraits on the walls, each one priced low, each one strangely unsold. Theo begins buying them one by one… and returning them to the people in the drawings, as gifts. What starts as a curious, almost eccentric project becomes something bigger: a chain of small, selfless moments that unlock buried grief, rekindle wonder, and stitch unlikely people back together.
As Theo’s “bestowals” ripple through Golden—from a wary prosecutor and a wounded father to a homeless woman with sharp wit and a gifted young musician—the town begins to sense there’s more to this man than he ever says.
Read the full summary to see how one year of generosity becomes unforgettable.
