A Cedar Key Novel
2012
Revell Books
Fiction/Contemporary
Imagine living your life feeling like your going to be left. After all your daddy died and left you and your momma, and then your momma sent you away to live with a new family when you were thirteen. Patsy Milstrap has lived her life with that fear, but she was never able to articulate it, but her actions showed it. The many calls a day to her husband at work, the disconnected way she treated her children. Finally a break down will bring it all to a head, and result in her being sent to a mental hospital for a while. However that seemed to backfire as she was not willing to share her true feelings with anyone. The death of her adoptive father 'Papa Buchwald' would bring everything to a head, where she would insist on leaving the hospital and facing life. However hard it might be.
On the flip side of this story is the family who was left behind, her young half brothers, Harold and Billy, and her Momma. Their life is not easy either, Mr. Liddle is a mean man and he makes life unbearable for them all. Harold gets into trouble all the time, but Billy plugged into church and fell in love with his first friend in Gainsville. He grows into a responsible young man, while Harold gets into more trouble and ends up going to prison. Mr. Liddle has an affair and gets another woman pregnant and this leads to divorce for Momma and Mr. Liddle, in fact she was so infuriated she changed her name back to her first husbands last name.
This book will just tear at your heartstrings. You will grieve as each family member tries to find their way. You will want to shake Patsy and tell her to face her past and her feelings before it destroys her life and marriage. I loved the story and I have to say the last pages are my favorite. I loved the imagery that Ms. Everson creates with that final bus-ride. A awesome end to a sad story, that seemed to have resolution. I give this book a 4 star rating.
This book was provided for review purposes, no payment was received for this review.
Available June 2012 from your favorite seller of Revell Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group.
Waiting for Sunrise by Eva Marie Everson is a beautifully moving story about a woman who has spent years of her life trying to hide from her past, but facing it may be the only thing that will heal her.
ReplyDeletePatsy Milstrap is a wife and mother of five who feels overwhelmed by her life. She has so much loss and tragedy in her past, and she wants to leave it in the past and forget. She isn't coping with life and her past has a lot to do with that, but her husband Gilbert isn't sure how to help her. He takes her on a vacation to get her away for a while, but he is also hoping that he will be able to reconnect her with someone that might help. Set in the late 1940s through to the mid 1960s, this story takes you through the lives of a family torn apart.