White Picket Fences
White Picket Fences
By: Susan Meissner
How many of us have the "white picket fence" image but inside we are dealing with secrets and pain that we hope will go away if we ignore it? In the beginning, I felt kinda sorry for Tally as she again is left with family she doesn't know and her dad disappears to another country. As she settles with her Aunt Amanda's family which everyone hopes will bring stability to Tally's life, you soon realize that emotionally, Tally is more stable than the rest of the household. This is a great story that will help you see that the secrets we all struggle with will not go away as long as we ignore them. In fact, the truth will set you free.
When her black sheep brother disappears, Amanda Janvier eagerly takes in her sixteen year-old niece Tally. The girl is practically an orphan: motherless, and living with a father who raises Tally wherever he lands– in a Buick, a pizza joint, a horse farm–and regularly takes off on wild schemes. Amanda envisions that she, her husband Neil, and their two teenagers can offer the girl stability and a shot at a “normal” life, even though their own storybook lives are about to crumble.
Seventeen-year-old Chase Janvier hasn’t seen his cousin in years, and other than a vague curiosity about her strange life, he doesn’t expect her arrival will affect him much–or interfere with his growing, disturbing interest in a long-ago house fire that plagues his dreams unbeknownst to anyone else.
Tally and Chase bond as they interview two Holocaust survivors for a sociology project, and become startlingly aware that the whole family is grappling with hidden secrets, with the echoes of the past, and with the realization that ignoring tragic situations won’t make them go away.
Will Tally’s presence blow apart their carefully-constructed world, knocking down the illusion of the white picket fence and reveal a hidden past that could destroy them all–or can she help them find the truth without losing each other?
Susan Meissner cannot remember a time when she wasn’t driven to put her thoughts down on paper. Her novel The Shape of Mercy was a Publishers Weekly pick for best religious fiction of 2008 and a Christian Book Award finalist. Susan and her husband live in Southern California, where he is a pastor and a chaplain in the Air Force Reserves. They are the parents of four grown children.
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http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400074570
Book provided for review by the WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group.
By: Susan Meissner
How many of us have the "white picket fence" image but inside we are dealing with secrets and pain that we hope will go away if we ignore it? In the beginning, I felt kinda sorry for Tally as she again is left with family she doesn't know and her dad disappears to another country. As she settles with her Aunt Amanda's family which everyone hopes will bring stability to Tally's life, you soon realize that emotionally, Tally is more stable than the rest of the household. This is a great story that will help you see that the secrets we all struggle with will not go away as long as we ignore them. In fact, the truth will set you free.
When her black sheep brother disappears, Amanda Janvier eagerly takes in her sixteen year-old niece Tally. The girl is practically an orphan: motherless, and living with a father who raises Tally wherever he lands– in a Buick, a pizza joint, a horse farm–and regularly takes off on wild schemes. Amanda envisions that she, her husband Neil, and their two teenagers can offer the girl stability and a shot at a “normal” life, even though their own storybook lives are about to crumble.
Seventeen-year-old Chase Janvier hasn’t seen his cousin in years, and other than a vague curiosity about her strange life, he doesn’t expect her arrival will affect him much–or interfere with his growing, disturbing interest in a long-ago house fire that plagues his dreams unbeknownst to anyone else.
Tally and Chase bond as they interview two Holocaust survivors for a sociology project, and become startlingly aware that the whole family is grappling with hidden secrets, with the echoes of the past, and with the realization that ignoring tragic situations won’t make them go away.
Will Tally’s presence blow apart their carefully-constructed world, knocking down the illusion of the white picket fence and reveal a hidden past that could destroy them all–or can she help them find the truth without losing each other?
Susan Meissner cannot remember a time when she wasn’t driven to put her thoughts down on paper. Her novel The Shape of Mercy was a Publishers Weekly pick for best religious fiction of 2008 and a Christian Book Award finalist. Susan and her husband live in Southern California, where he is a pastor and a chaplain in the Air Force Reserves. They are the parents of four grown children.
Get your copy today:
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400074570
Book provided for review by the WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group.
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