Strong Ownership

Previously published as Strong Ownership by Vamegh Askari.
Can I afford it? Can I strongly own it?
Sam has a good job, three properties, and a fourteen-year-old son she adores. From the street, it looks like a life that's going well. From the inside, it feels like running for a bus that pulls away every time she reaches it. Then a tiny Yorkshire terrier named Bella steals an apple from her driveway, and Sam meets Dan.
He's the calm neighbour who pays cash, folds his bicycle into the trunk of his car, and answers almost every question with a better one. He doesn't ask whether he can afford something. He asks whether he can strongly own it. Over one year Sam faces a $3,361.75 car repair and a dealership that sells cars by the month.
She makes the hard choice to sell a property, finds a still lake in Muskoka where her phone says No Service, and shares Sunday lunches with Slavo and Maria, who came to Canada with three children, little English, and five plane tickets. Along the way, Sam learns that owning more is not the same as owning well, that being rich and being wealthy are two different things, and that a future isn't something you build first and move into later. Warm, funny, and quietly wise, life
Strong Ownership is a novel about money, time, attention, and the people who matter, with ideas you can carry into your own Own it strongly. Hold it lightly.