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Indlæser... One Summer in Savannah: A Novelaf Terah Shelton Harris
   BLM (147) Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog.  libraryofemma | Apr 18, 2024 |   After she is raped and discovers she is pregnant, Sara leaves Savannah to start her life over in Maine where she has some legal protection from her rapist and his powerful family. As her daughter grows older, Sara finds she needs to return to Savannah as her father faces a terminal illness. She discovers that her father has befriended her rapists twin brother and allows him to fund his book store renovation where he continues to work. Both David and Sara develop feelings for each other. (  ) mojomomma | Mar 12, 2024 |  ) bookczuk | Mar 9, 2024 |  ) Dianekeenoy | Mar 9, 2024 |  ) bereanna | Mar 9, 2024 | ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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HTML: "Nothing short of astonishing. The best writers are brave writers, and Harris has proven herself among those ranks." â??Mateo Askaripour, New York Times bestselling author of Black Buck A compelling debut that glows with bittersweet heart and touching emotion, deeply interrogating questions of family, redemption, and unconditional love in the sweltering summer heat of Savannah, as two people discover what it means to truly forgive. It's been eight years since Sara Lancaster left her home in Savannah, Georgia. Eight years since her daughter, Alana, came into this world, following a terrifying sexual assault that left deep emotional wounds Sara would do anything to forget. But when Sara's father falls ill, she's forced to return home and face the ghosts of her past. While caring for her father and running his bookstore, Sara is desperate to protect her curious, outgoing, genius daughter from the Wylers, the family of the man who assaulted her. Sara thinks she can succeedâ??her attacker is in prison, his identical twin brother, Jacob, left town years ago, and their mother are all unaware Alana exists. But she soon learns that Jacob has also just returned to Savannah to piece together the fragments of his once-great family. And when their two worlds collideâ??with the type of force Sara explores in her poetry and Jacob in his astrophysicsâ??they are drawn together in unexpected ways. "An unforgettable portrayal of familial tragedy, bravery, and redemption." â??Kim Michele Richardson, New York Times bestselling author of The Book Woman's Daughte No library descriptions found. |
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It almost goes without saying, but Alana was my favorite character.
I did not like aspects of the romance. I picked this book up expecting some romance, but not as much as there was. I was a lot more interested in literally every other aspect of the story.
The narrators were great.
3.5 Stars
Content: scattered language, child born of r*pe, fatally ill characters, a scene or two that was easy to skip (