Bob’s Diner is a book about lonely people searching for love and acceptance. There’s Bob, the diner’s owner, who escapes the world using his diner as his refuge and safe place. Lillian, his wife, childless, and looking for someone to mother. Mr. Twitters a customer, who enters the diner and finds it life changing. Rosaline, who works as a waitress, wanting desperately to be needed. Toby, a middle schooler optimistic, just trying to fit in and searching for answers.
Many other characters, entering Bob’s diner, wanting to connect, to be seen, and to be heard. A large cast of people trying to make their way in the world. All longing for these connections during seemingly simpler times of the 1960s. And yet as one reads on, they will notice, “Everything changes, and everything stays the same.” Places and events within Bob’s Diner might be different from today but the core and heart of these people remains timeless and universal. Within Bob’s diner and this small New Jersey town of Woodlake are stories of resilience, joy and optimism.