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| ISBN: | 0451240464 (ISBN13: 9780451240460) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Karen White
Hardcover | Pages: 432 pages Rating: 4.09 | 6534 Users | 722 Reviews
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"We Walker women were born screaming into this world, the beginning of a lifelong quest to find what would quiet us. But whatever drove us away was never stronger than the pull of what brought us back...."When Vivien Walker left her home in the Mississippi Delta, she swore never to go back, as generations of the women in her family had. But in the spring, nine years to the day since she’d left, that’s exactly what happens—Vivien returns, fleeing from a broken marriage and her lost dreams for children.
What she hopes to find is solace with "Bootsie," her dear grandmother who raised her, a Walker woman with a knack for making everything all right. But instead she finds that her grandmother has died and that her estranged mother is drifting further away from her memories. Now Vivien is forced into the unexpected role of caretaker, challenging her personal quest to find the girl she herself once was.
But for Vivien things change in ways she cannot imagine when a violent storm reveals the remains of a long-dead woman buried near the Walker home, not far from the cypress swamp that is soon to give up its ghosts. Vivien knows there is now only one way to rediscover herself—by uncovering the secrets of her family and breaking the cycle of loss that has haunted her them for generations.
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| Title | : | A Long Time Gone |
| Author | : | Karen White |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 432 pages |
| Published | : | June 3rd 2014 by NAL |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Mystery. Womens Fiction. Chick Lit. American. Southern. Contemporary |
Rating Appertaining To Books A Long Time Gone
Ratings: 4.09 From 6534 Users | 722 ReviewsCrit Appertaining To Books A Long Time Gone
This is a story about three generations of Southern women (really, it's four generations, but essentially skips one of them for some reason) wrapped around a somewhat engrossing mystery story. Adelaide's story takes place in the 1920s. Bootsie, her daughter, we pretty much skip. Carol Lynne's story (Bootsie's daughter) takes place from the '60s to the early '00s, and the lead character, Vivien (Carol Lynne's daughter), is present day. The characters are utterly one-dimensional (a goodie-goodie,I love Karen White and her style of writing. However, A Long Time Gone wasn't my favorite by her. She did create strong southern women as is her style but there were just too many stories going on. I loved Adelaide story; I wish Bootsie's story had been more developed. Of course, I look forward to reading more by Karen White!Go Cards! L1C4!!
One of Karen White's best! I love her depiction of southern life and it's many strong traditions - the good, bad and ugly, and the fact that her characters are human, flawed, real. I like the way this story is told through the experiences and perspective of three generations of women, all deeply influenced and impacted by the people and events that have come before each of them. At the center of it all is a mystery that unfolds along the way. One of those books that was hard to put down, made me
Wow! This book deserves to be read by everyone I know. I had known Karen White was a great writer before I read this book, but this was amazing; one of the best books I've read this year. The characters were so real and their past so intriguing that I couldn't put it down. I highly recommend it to everyone!
It took me a while to settle to this novel, which tells the story of a family of women in Indian Mound Mississippi. The story starts with Vivien Walker Moise in 2013 and the discovery of bones on the family property she has returned to after a nine year absence. But who do the bones belong to? Just as I was getting interested in that, it changes to Adelaide Walker Bodine in 1920. When she was ten Adelaides mother had jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge. Then it returns to Viviens story and a
This is the 8th book I have read by Karen White. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and it touched my life. She is a wonderful writer. The main character leaves home in the Mississippi Delta and heads to California. She marries a plastic surgeon and takes on his daughter as her own. During that marriage she faces two miscarriages and end up hooked on pills. Feeling a failure she returns home to Mississippi to an older brother and a mother who has dementia. Cognitive impairment has touched my life
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