Hold Up the Sky
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Publisher Description
From a veteran writer new to the Accent list, a novel about four women who find strength and insight in each other.
Mamie is facing an overwhelming secret. Margaret has lost her home. Billie can no longer care alone for her disabled daughter. And Maria is living with an untenable choice. When these four women come together to live on a drought-stricken Georgia farm, they must open their hearts, and share their burdens, before they can find the bounty that lies hidden in tough times, and once again see the glorious pattern of meaning in their lives.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In her latest, Sprinkle (Carley s Song) abandons mystery for pure melodrama, following two down-on-their-luck sisters reconverging on their father s farm in Solace, Ga. When the bottom falls out of Maggie Baxter s safe upper-middle-class family life, she takes her sons and moves back to daddy s farm, where her sister, Billie, and Billie s disabled daughter, live hand-to-mouth following the disappearance of Billie s husband. The two sisters spend sweltering summer days in their father s kitchen with elderly friend Mamie Fountain, who is dying of congestive heart failure, and Mexican immigrant Emerita Gomez, who has lost her family. The only respite from these characters gloom-and-doom circumstances is the reappearance of Billie s good-hearted high school heartthrob. Sprinkle has a gift for developing a full, rich world, but her narrative spends far too long spinning its wheels, considering and reconsidering each woman s miseries without moving beyond them.
