Nicole Seitz

Broschiertes Buch

The Saving Cicadas

Beschreibung

A moving novel of unconditional love and the freedom of letting go, this story follows the haunting journey of a single mother from South Carolina who discovers she's pregnant again. When single mother Priscilla Lynn Macy learns she's having another child unexpectedly, she packs the family into the car to escape. Eight-year-old Janie Doe and Rainey Dae, her seventeen-year-old sister with special needs, embark on the last family vacation they'll ever take with Poppy and Grandma Mona in the back seat. The trip seems aimless until Janie realizes they are searching for the father who left them years ago. When they can't find him, they make their way to Forest Pines, SC. Priscilla hasn't been to her family home in many years and finds it a mixed blessing of hope, buried secrets, and family ghosts. Through eyes of innocence, Janie learns the hard realities of life and the difficult choices grownups make. And she must face disturbing truths about the people she loves in order to carry them in the moments that matter most. Part road trip, part mystery, and completely unexpected, Saving Cicadas picks you up in one place and puts you down someplace else entirely. It's an eloquent reminder that life is a miracle--and even the smallest soul is a gift.Haunting contemporary southern fiction Includes discussion questions for book clubs Also by Nicole Seitz: The Inheritance of Beauty, A Hundred Years of Happiness, and Trouble the Water

Autor

Seitz is a writer, editor, educator, illustrator and artist. She paints the covers of her novels and teaches visual arts and creative writing at a local Christian school. She was inspired to begin writing a series for teens with a Christian worldview, one that would spark their interest in Biblical prophecy as well as encourage endurance and perseverance.Nicole Seitz is the author of three YA novels, The Firstborn, The Virus and The Remnant (House of Heaventree Books 1, 2 and 3) as well as seven adult novels: The Cage-maker; Beyond Molasses Creek; The Inheritance of Beauty; Saving Cicadas; A Hundred Years of Happiness; Trouble the Water; and The Spirit of Sweetgrass. She is also the editor of When You Pass Through Waters: Words of Hope and Healing from Your Favorite Authors and coeditor of Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy. Seitz is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Journalism and also has a degree in Illustration from Savannah College of Art & Design. Visit nicoleseitz.com and heaventreebooks.com for more information.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Thomas Nelson
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 456g
• ISBN-13: 9781595545039
• ISBN-10: 1595545034
• Artikelnr.: 26196248