Kindle Edition Amazon Corrine Ardoin Category:  Historical Fiction Publisher: Black Rose Writing ISBN-10:  1684339952 Type: Fiction Pages: 220 Copyright: July 28, 2022 ISBN-13: 9781684339952 Price: $5.99 (eBook) Life for four friends growing up in rural America is challenged by bigotry, racism, death, and child abuse. Their struggles coming of age are further complicated as they experience their awakening sexuality amid a landscape of parental abandonment and infidelity. A Place Called The Way tells the story of a small settlement founded in Pine Valley. While generations have pondered its name, few realize it is more than just a town. It is a power both holy and mysterious that can bring healing and peace to all the wounded souls who call Pine Valley home. In their individual struggles to find their place in the world, the mystery of their untold secrets lead them at last to each other and, ultimately, to the Way. Little Jimmy Hart tosses handfuls of hay, watching them shine in the sun and scatter on the wind. Tears dry, yet the awful memory remains. He stomps his tiny cowboy boots, crushing the ants beneath his feet, when his mother quickly picks him up and hurries across the field. Outwardly, the four-year-old looks like the sweet child his mother knows, but within himself, something is lost. Marked by his abusive uncle, he turns angry and destructive. No one understands him except his grandmother. She's the medicine woman for a tribe driven out of Pine Valley nearly one-hundred years ago. She knows the source of recurring tragedies befalling the Hart family. But, she's not the only one . . . Excerpt She approached them, but went on past, never looking their way. An awful feeling came over Jimmy at the sight of her. Like a vision of Death from out of the shadowy depths, her ghostly form related to him his son's demise, and he felt himself grow pale and weak as the earth beneath his feet nearly fell away.

Independent Book Review
Corrine Ardoin delivers another captivating story with A Place Called the Way, the third book in the Pine Valley series. Drawing upon the stories we’ve already encountered in the previous books, this novel delves deeper into the characters’ trials and provides insight into the fictional history of their little town. This third book sustains all the intrigue and compassion of the previous books.

Midwest Book Review
Readers need this story of promise and spiritual growth, and libraries need to not only include it in literary fiction collections about small-town roots, but should point book clubs and discussion groups to its evocative blend of spiritual and social inspection.

Book Review Directory
At its core, A Place Called the Way is a multi-generational study and examination of humanity in all its glory and frailty, bringing to mind classics like The Joy Luck Club and One Hundred Years of Solitude. With the stroke of a pen, the author exposes the murkiness behind the façade we present to the world and the struggles underneath the surface that threatens to pull us under. Riveting, with a raw quality that is deeply affecting, it will surely have readers rapidly turning pages to find out what happens next.