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A carregar... Call the Canaries Home: A Novel (edição 2023)por Laura Barrow (Autor)
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Three estranged sisters reconnect in their Louisiana hometown to face an unresolved past in a heartfelt novel about family, grief, secrets, and forgiveness. Savannah was four years old when her twin sister, Georgia, went missing from their small Louisiana town, fracturing their family. Twenty-eight years later, Savannah convinces her estranged older sisters, Rayanne and Sue Ellen, to honor the pact they made as children and retrieve the time capsule they buried in their old backyard. But coming home means confronting old ghosts...and their stubborn grandmother, Meemaw. Sifting through the artifacts, they come across a photograph taken on the day Georgia disappeared and spot a familiar woman lingering in the background. While Sue Ellen and Rayanne want to move on with their lives, Savannah is determined to find the woman--and perhaps a clue to the past. When old tensions, rivalries, and memories resurface, the sisters must reconsider what they thought they knew about that fateful day, about each other, and about themselves. On their search to uncover what happened to Georgia, each of them will discover what Meemaw has known all along: family is everything. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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The story waffles among the Guidry sisters, their past and present and sometimes in between. There is a whole lot of hostility among them and the reason they come together is just a little bit out of the realm of believable but a promise made twenty-five years ago is still a promise to be kept. Back to Meemaw - she is described as someone whose “heart had always been in the right place even if her execution had the grace of a cow on roller skates.” She is a mighty interesting character and is the glue on every page of this book. Unfortunately the sisters are a mess and their rivalries, resentments and ugly accusations are exhausting for them and the reader. The mystery that pulls them apart is less of a mystery than survivor’s hope thrown in when the story flags. Messy characters whose voices become entangled, messy story which rambles around “the sacrifice, the needing”.
Something about this book kept me reading but when I dissect the parts I am unsure as there were so many stereotypes and situations that should have been a turnoff but somehow seemed to work. The failures and anger seemed unlimited but again they also fit. Without the humor this would have been a very hard read. I am rounding up for effort and insight. Thanks to Lake Union Publishing and NetGalley for a copy. ( )