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When 5-year old Sharla Cody is dumped on the doorstep of Addy Shadd, a 70-year old woman living in a trailer park, Addy does not know how completely her life is about to change. She's hardly used to company and the troubled Sharla is not the sweet, beautiful angel she had envisioned. Over time, Addy and Sharla form a bond that neither of them expected-and Sharla begins to undergo a transformation under Addy's patient and loving care. But much to Addy's surprise and dismay, Sharla's presence brings back memories of her own tumultuous childhood. As she reminisces about her days growing up in Rusholme, a town settled by fugitive slaves in the mid 1800s, she remembers her family and her first love and confronts the painful experience that drove her away from home, never to return.
Brilliantly structured and achingly lyrical, this beautiful first novel by the award-winning author of The Girls tells the story of two unlikely people thrown together who transform each other's lives forever.
Brilliantly structured and achingly lyrical, this beautiful first novel by the award-winning author of The Girls tells the story of two unlikely people thrown together who transform each other's lives forever.
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A first novel of exquisite power, honesty and conviction. It's portrait of how much has changed, and how little, over nearly a century, in the realms of race, love, hate and loss, is quite nearly without flaws (Jacquelyn Mitchard)
A powerful and unusual first novel. (HISTORICAL NOVELS REVIEW)
It's some time since I've read a book with the power to captivate me to the point of forgetting what is going on around. An evocative read...but ultimately a comforting and hopeful one. And if you're not crying by the end, well, you're a stronger person than me! (IRISH TATLER)
The story's beauty is in its simplicity. Told coldly, without pretension. It reveals Lansens as an honest writer with a convincing knowledge of her characters and chosen period. She takes racism, love, hate, violence and forgiveness in her stride...As the (SUNDAY EXPRESS)
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A powerful and unusual first novel. (HISTORICAL NOVELS REVIEW)
It's some time since I've read a book with the power to captivate me to the point of forgetting what is going on around. An evocative read...but ultimately a comforting and hopeful one. And if you're not crying by the end, well, you're a stronger person than me! (IRISH TATLER)
The story's beauty is in its simplicity. Told coldly, without pretension. It reveals Lansens as an honest writer with a convincing knowledge of her characters and chosen period. She takes racism, love, hate, violence and forgiveness in her stride...As the (SUNDAY EXPRESS)
* In the spirit of White Oleander and The Color Purple, a heart-breaking and page-turning story about a seventy-year old woman who relives her life when a five-year-old girl is abandoned on her doorstep
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