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Lädt ... Calling Homevon Janna McMahan
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. This was a good read: believably flawed people and interesting journeys for each of them over the course of a year in Kentucky. I thought the author did a great job of capturing small-town 1980s life in the state. I wish Jake had got what he deserved, but I suppose it's in the nature of life that people don't always get what they should. ( ) Shannon is a teenager growing up in the small town of Falling Rock, Kentucky in the early 1980s. Her father has just left her mother to take up with the town’s beautician and her older brother Will is about to go away to college. Shannon is determined that she is not going to be stuck in the dead-end town after high school, working in the underwear factory like her mother. This book was definitely not a “feel-good” book – the mood was melancholy throughout and the characters, especially Shannon, faced some difficult situations and decisions. It was ultimately about Shannon’s struggle to be her own person and break free of the hold her family and the town had over her. Even though it was kind of depressing, it had a good story that took some surprising turns. For any woman who knows and understands the blissful and bittersweet qualities of both being a daughter and being a mother. This story enveloped me in the lives of the characters like a soft, old quilt. The poetic descriptions of the southern landscape, heartfelt descriptions of adolescence and compassionate descriptions of mature love will not be lost on you as the reader. Zeige 4 von 4 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
From an extraordinary new voice in fiction comes a haunting, powerful novel about mothers and daughters, choice and regret, the mistakes we make and the ones we hope we can correct before it's too late. Nothing much ever happens in Falling Rock, Kentucky. So when Virginia Lemmons' husband takes off in his Trans Am to take up with a beautician, there's not much to do but what people in rural Kentucky have always done--get on with it. Now, overwhelmed and unsure, Virginia's got her hands full trying to keep it together, body and soul, while raising her two teenage kids--eighteen-year-old son, Will, and her spirited fourteen-year-old daughter, Shannon. But Shannon has her own ideas for breaking free of Falling Rock, and in her reckless, wild-child daughter, Virginia sees echoes of herself and her own painful past. She'll do whatever it takes to keep her daughter from making the same tragic mistakes, and saving what's left of her fragile family just may be the biggest fight of Virginia's life. In this compelling, heartbreaking first novel, Janna McMahan brings to authentic life the dreams, passions, and troubles of one southern town, where choice isn't always easy to come by, and living the hand you're dealt with is a grace all its own. "A beautifully wrought novel populated by a vivid cast of characters. . .Janna McMahan takes us completely into the lives of these people and their small town, presenting this world with authenticity and dignity. I absolutely loved this book and will carry it with me for a long time." --Silas House Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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