The Edge of Grace
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
An early morning call shatters Caryn Becker's world. Unable to cope with her brother's news that he is gay, Caryn rejects him and disappears into her own turbulent life as a young widow and single mom. But when David is attacked and nearly killed, Caryn is forced to make hard choices about family, faith, and her own future; choices that take her to the very edge of grace.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Allan cooks up another wise-cracking, flawed central character reminiscent of Leah Thornton, the alcoholic protagonist of Walking on Broken Glass. Caryn Becker is a widowed single mom who learns in the phone call that opens the narrative that her brother David is gay. Readers who don't think this is a dramatic problem will have no reason to read the rest of the novel. But those in the Christian audience who are captured by this premise can learn something from this story with a message. Allan writes well, though the wit of Caryn's narrative voice could use occasional changeup to avoid sounding brittle. It also takes an annoyingly long time before David is attacked by gay bashers, a pivotal plot event preceded by overly detailed development of plot strands involving Caryn's catering business and her relationship with her best friend and neighbor Julie. Allan makes sure a lot is going on, but not all of it is equally engaging. Her sophomore effort is uneven, but she bravely continues to push the confines of Christian fiction.