Category: Young Adult/Teen Publisher: Black Rose Writing
ISBN-10: 1684332192
Type: Fiction
Pages: 189
Copyright: 03-14-2019
ISBN-13: 9781684332199
Price: $4.99 (eBook)
Claire Chastain reflects on her life in small town Texas in the 1950s as she and best friend Libby face family crisis and loss.
Claire Chastain is the pampered and protected adopted daughter of the town's leading citizens who enjoys every minute of her childhood in a cocoon of perfection provided by her parents and the town they adore. Her parents have attained the highest pinnacle of respect and adoration which Claire sees as her rightful destiny, and she is determined to follow in her parents' footsteps to practice law with her father. Her town may be small but her family legacy looms large in the limelight as the town darling.
Claire shares her joys and challenges with best friend Libby who comes to town as a poverty-stricken ten-year-old forced to give up her family and suffers the emotional scars and trauma of loss.
Claire is blindsided by her mother's illness and ensuing conflicts with her father as her traditional values crumble and her world shatters. She is forced to find her way and make her own forever decisions.
The girls struggle to find meaning and value in their lives as they cope with life's changes and ultimately they experience the power of hope, love and forgiveness and the sustaining commitment of family and friendship.
Excerpt
Everything of substance in my world was family. Now there was not a shred of family for me to hold onto. I had dug and questioned and obsessed and now I had it out in the open--the ugly truth. Family meant nothing. The Chastain family was gone in the twinkling of an eye. All my cherished memories of my childhood and who I was as a person had been obliterated in those five words.
You made me recall some pampered adopted kids in my hometown. Genetics runs deep. Things don't always turn out the way adopting parents wish they would.
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Author R.L. Mitchley, gets some help from his close friend Elias, as they franticly work to reunite Bob with three of his deceased family members, Grammy, Pappy & Arlene for one last time...
