Erin McHugh had spent the better part of her adult life doing community work, but in more recent years, the minutiae of life and working as a bookseller kept her busy and away from those higher impulses. Then one day she learned a distant relative was actually going to be canonized. Was this a sign? What followed next was McHugh#146;s sincere urge to recapture a sense of charity, and so she set out on her birthday to do one good deed every day for an entire year. Maybe she wouldn#146;t be saving orphans from burning buildings, but she wanted to take one small, daily detour and make someone else#146;s life just a little bit better. One Good Deed is the inspiring, smart, and frequently funny chronicle of that year, in which each page represents a day in McHugh#146;s journey to reclaim the better part of herself, inspiring readers to do the same. Praise for One Good Deed : "Her memoir will inspire you to flex your do-gooder muscle without being preachy or a Pollyanna." --Fitness "7 Good Deeds That Could Change Your Life" --Redbook "Engaging, funny, wise, and winning. One Good Deed is a measure of humanity and of McHugh#146;s own striving towards it.

" --Susan Orlean, author of Rin Tin Tin and The Orchid Thief "This instructive, funny, utterly relevant book reminds us that the simple (but not-so-simple) act of paying daily attention can make a profound difference--to the world around us, and to our very selves." --Dani Shapiro, author of Devotion: A Memoir "The best book in the world.because it makes us our best." --Nichole Bernier, author of The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D.