Kindle Edition Amazon Corrine Ardoin Black Rose Writing Category:  Literary Fiction Publisher: Black Rose Writing ISBN-10:  168433683X Type: Fiction Pages: 235 Copyright: May 13, 2021 ISBN-13: 9781684336838 Price: $6.99 (eBook) Two years before the events in Fathers of Edenville, life for Jim Hart, Sylvia and Forty Sumner, and Tucker Stewart is full of secrecy and suspicion. When Jim's grandmother dies, it lays bare the lies, as well as the redeeming truth. Ninety-year-old Ev willingly joins the farmworkers march to certain death. With Ev gone, her daughter, Candelaria Hart, must find the strength to lead her family. To do so, she must let go of her greatest love, her late husband, Jimmy Hart, and her troubled son, Jim. This takes her on a journey to claim the awesome power of her voice as a Mexican-American speaker and author. Meanwhile, Jim is entering a dark phase of his life, courting suicide in his desperate need for relief from the demons that haunt him. Alcoholic and self-harming, he pressures his lover, Sylvia Sumner, to leave her husband and go away with him. Amateur detective, Forty Sumner, suspects foul play, but is led astray by Jim, who points the finger at the hapless Tucker Stewart. Mistakes made by the mothers of Pine Way have left their legacy. It is now up to their children to either learn the lessons or repeat their mistakes. With courage and love, those willing to face the past will be able to step into their future.   Excerpt In her tiresome grief, Candelaria could only weep, mad at God, fearing that Jim would never get the chance to be anything more than a problem child who grew up to become another angry, broken man. Though, what truly frightened her, was an incident that took place only two days ago. It was the day she wanted very much to forget, which Rosa attempted to pry from her. Returning to her in a lion's gaze, it arrived in her memory as though adrift on the wind that blew somewhere far off, somewhere...

Mothers of Pine Way
Mothers of Pine Way is a highly recommended literary inspection of small town life and connections which, like its predecessor, draws its readers into the unfolding drama of mystery, revised purposes, and love.- Diane Donovan, Editor, Donovan's Literary Services, Bookwatch

Mothers of Pine Way
Pine Way is a microcosm of the trials of an entire world...sometimes painfully real, with characters you might expect to meet in your own neighborhoods, and gossip and news you might have heard or spread earlier this morning. Corrine Ardoin has offered to her readers a shared, complicated love for small towns that has us leaning in, anxious to hear and learn more. -Samantha Hui, Independent Book Review

Mothers of Pine Way
As in Fried Green Tomatoes and Like Water for Chocolate, this story illustrates that people both create and respond to their circumstances. As individuals within a community, each can help herself and the others find strength, peace, and fulfillment, but usually after many personal, familial, and societal battles. -Carolyn Davis, The US Review of Books