East Bay novelist Linda Lenhoff decided to veer away from pure breeziness in her new, fourth book. In “Your Actual Life May Vary” (Santa Fe Writers Project, 286 pages, $15.95, Aug. 5, 2025), the protagonist, an empathetic yet quirky 31-year-old graduate student named Patty, literally walks off with an abused young boy, and they move […]
