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If the road to finding yourself requires you to face a horrific truth, would you be willing to take that journey? That’s the decision that Sara Butler has to make in Gregory G. Allen’s thought provoking book Patchwork of Me.
Starting over in life can bring about feelings of excitement, redemption and hope. However, if you’re 40 years old, newly divorced because your husband of 11 years cheated on you and impregnated his 25 year old paralegal, then rebuilding your life takes on a much different tone. In “Thin Rich Bitches”, author Janet Eve Josselyn displays her writing talent as she manages to capture the difficulty of starting over with honest, humorous and relatable storytelling.
Even when we do not actively participate in our destiny, we are still on a chosen path. Life has a way of making decisions for us. ****** In Diana Estill’s women’s fiction title When Horses Had Wings, lead character Renee Goodchild understands the important lesson of gaining control of one’s life more than most. Her unplanned teenage pregnancy prompts a premature wedding to her high school boyfriend, and now Renee must submit to the responsibility of adulthood without the benefit of actually being an adult.
Twelve year old Nicky Dillon knows that if one thing was different, one little thing, the new born baby would have died cold and alone in the woods. She thought about how one change in their behavior could have been the difference between life and death for the baby. Just like one change in the family’s activities on the day her mother and baby sister were killed in a car accident would have made the same life and death difference. Nicky takes their discovery as a sign. Her father, Robert Dillon, who saves the baby during their daily walk in the snowy woods, does not.
What if you had a chance to experience life on the “road not taken”? In Ellen Meister’s novel, The Other Life, Quinn Braverman, pregnant housewife and mother of six year old Isaac, has the unique ability to do just that. In Quinn’s other life she is childless and living a fast pace life in a luxury Manhattan apartment with her semi-famous, live-in boyfriend Eugene. Crossing over through a “portal” between her two lives, Quinn does not have to imagine if the grass is greener on the other side, she is able to live her parallel life and see for herself.
In keeping with the true meaning of women’s fiction, A Thousand Splendid Suns was selected and read by Women Fiction Club members because it actually fits the genre. This title 1) focuses on a woman (in this case women), 2) the women learn, change and grow because of a journey detailed within the pages of the book and 3) the book has a satisfying but not necessarily tidy and happy ending. There may also be an added benefit for readers of this book. When following Miriam and Laila, the two heroines in the novel, readers may discover that they have also learned, changed and grown in knowledge and perspective by the end of this book.
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God Doesn't Love Us All The Same, by Nina Guilbeau
Janine Harris never really thought about homeless people. She barely even notices them as she passes them by on her way to work in downtown Washington D.C. All Janine can focus on is the shambles of her own young life, afraid that she will never be able to get past the painful mistakes she has made. However, all of that changes on a snowy evening in December when Janine unexpectedly finds herself alone with Vera, an old, homeless woman who seems to need her help. Now Janie wants to know what could have possibly happened to Vera to leave her so broken and alone.
As Vera shares her life story with Janine, the two women form an unusual bond and begin a journey that changes both of their lives forever. Reluctantly, they each confront their own past and, in the process, discover the true meaning of sacrifice, family and love. Although to truly move forward in their lives, they must fast the most difficult challenge of all – forgiving themselves.
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