Without a Backward Glance
by Kate Veitch | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0452289475 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0452289475 Global Overview for this book
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Amazon Editorial Review
A deeply felt first novel of family, choices, and coming to terms with the past.
On a stifling Christmas Eve in 1967 the lives of the McDonald children-Deborah, Robert, James, and Meredith-changed forever. Their mother, Rosemarie, told them she was running out to buy some lights for the tree. She never came back. The children were left with their father, and a gnawing question: why had their mother abandoned them?
Over the years, the four siblings have become practiced in concealing their pain, remaining close into adulthood, and forming their own families. But long-closed wounds are reopened when a chance encounter brings James face-to-face with Rosemarie after nearly forty years. Secrets that each sibling has locked away come to light as they struggle to come to terms with their mother's reappearance, while at the same time their beloved father is progressing into dementia. Veitch's family portrait reveals the joys and sorrows, the complexity and ambiguity of family life, and poignantly probes what it means to love and what it means to leave.
Amazon Editorial Review
A deeply felt first novel of family, choices, and coming to terms with the past.
On a stifling Christmas Eve in 1967 the lives of the McDonald children-Deborah, Robert, James, and Meredith-changed forever. Their mother, Rosemarie, told them she was running out to buy some lights for the tree. She never came back. The children were left with their father, and a gnawing question: why had their mother abandoned them?
Over the years, the four siblings have become practiced in concealing their pain, remaining close into adulthood, and forming their own families. But long-closed wounds are reopened when a chance encounter brings James face-to-face with Rosemarie after nearly forty years. Secrets that each sibling has locked away come to light as they struggle to come to terms with their mother's reappearance, while at the same time their beloved father is progressing into dementia. Veitch's family portrait reveals the joys and sorrows, the complexity and ambiguity of family life, and poignantly probes what it means to love and what it means to leave.
Journal Entry 2 by bookstogive at Little Free Library #6127 - 411 Beach Dr. in Springville, Tennessee USA on Saturday, August 10, 2019
bookstogive at Little Free Library #6127 - 411 Beach Dr. in Springville, Tennessee USA on Saturday, August 10, 2019
Released 4 yrs ago (8/11/2019 UTC) at Little Free Library #6127 - 411 Beach Dr. in Springville, Tennessee USA
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