Every first Sunday in June, members of the Moses clan gather for an annual reunion at a sprawling hundred-acre farm in Arkansas. And every year, Samuel Lake, a vibrant and committed young preacher, brings his beloved wife, Willadee Moses, and their three children back for the festivities. In the midst of it all, Samuel and Willadee’s outspoken eleven-year-old daughter, Swan, is a bright light. … Her high spirits and fearlessness have alternately seduced and bedeviled three generations of the family. But just as the reunion is getting under way, tragedy strikes, jolting the family to their core and setting the stage for a summer of crisis and profound change.
With the clear-eyed wisdom that illuminates the most tragic — and triumphant — aspects of human nature, Jenny Wingfield has created an enduring work of fiction.
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A story of the south in the 1950‘s. The realistic discriptions of people, places and language take you to rural Arkansas. Would love to read more by this author.
Best book I’ve read in a while. I highly recommend it!
I was surprised I liked this book so much. I don’t want to put it down. I am still reading it. 3/4 of the way through it and I have a feeling the ending will not be a disappointment. It is a fun and heartrending tale of a genuinely likeable southern family and a villain who is much like a vicious poisnous snake. Don’t miss it!
This was too dark for me.
I adored this book!
Excellent read. Loved the realness of the characters.
This was a very well written book. The characters are well developed and the story had enough twists to make me want to continue reading. There are cruelties against children but they are well written and not described in ad nauseam detail. God is mentioned often, but it’s a story about a preacher and his family and done in such a way as to not …