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Category:
Women
Publisher: self pulblished
ISBN-10: 1530463017
Type: Fiction
Pages: 326
Copyright: March, 2016
ISBN-13: 9781530463015
Price: $4.99 (eBook)
Nettie Campbell is at a crossroads, but she is responsible for her alcoholic, mentally ill mother and her peculiar uncle Pup. Will a homeless housekeeper with ESP be able to help her?
A southern family saga emerges as Nettie begins a quest to discover who she is. Twenty-one years old and Annette Roberta Randall is searching, looking for herself. The perception and sensitivity she relied on to bolster her through an isolated childhood have disappeared and with them her sense of self. Nettie also seeks the truth, information about her dysfunctional family and the mysteries that whisper to her in their eccentric family home. She receives glimpses in the alcohol induced monologues of her mother, Delores Cecelia, "DeCe". However, DeCe lost herself long before Nettie was born, and she buried her secrets so deep, even the spirits haunting her cannot unlock her soul. Pup, Nettie's peculiar uncle, may have witnessed the most recent chaos, but he cannot communicate what he knows for sure. Nettie's struggles are apparent to her extended family and neighbors, but only she can resolve to overcome the pull of the notorius Kirkland family and Berclaire mansion. The secrets fester and DeCe clings to them like the neglected ivy tendrils on the shadowed side of the mansion. Slowly, the truth will unfold, but will it be enough to free Nettie, or the undoing of her mother, DeCe?
Nettie believed it was possible her grandfather, Old Nate, was responsible for the hauntings at the Berclaire mansion, but the more she learns of her great grandmother, Roberta, she decides he might have been a victim, also. DeCe had been taking pills and drinking alcohol from before the time she was a teenager, attempting to numb herself to her dysfunctional family. Nettie could only guess at a history during her drunken orations about DeCe's childhood. Nettie knows she is the seventh child born to DeCe, the others gone before Nettie was born. Some would filter back into her life, but would they help her learn more about her identity, or bring more pain?
Excerpt
5 of 5 Stars from Gini Rainey, The Island Guide, The Entertainment Magazine for Galveston Island, September, 2016 Edition.
You think your family has problems? Well, you haven't met the Kirkland's, have you! The first thing that intrigued me about this book . . . was the play on words in the title. The second thing that intrigued me was how she managed to keep all her characters straight! This family would be a genealogist's nightmare to try and plot on a family tree! I had to laugh out loud many times at the lengths Moore went to creating this zany group of folks.
It was because of Moore's brilliance with character development and descriptive phrases that it wasn't long before I was myself tangled into the Kirkland's mystique and found myself once again caught up in a book I couldn't put down.
This is the type of book I never thought I would read: animals being able to communicate with thoughts to their humans and vice versa, as well as with one another, voodoo potions, family secrets, and haunted houses. Just imagine it, and I would bet you'll find it in this book. With all the twists and turns in Tangled, you almost think Moore would never be able to bring it successfully to a close, but she does and in a most brilliant way.
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