The Tenth Song
A Novel
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- 10,99 €
Beschreibung des Verlags
A shattering betrayal sends a mother on a desperate journey to save her daughter and uncover the truth in this heart-wrenching novel from an international bestselling author.
Abigail Samuels has no reason to feel anything but joy on the morning her life falls apart. The epitome of a successful Jewish American woman, she is married to a respected accountant and in the middle of planning her daughter Kayla's wedding. Kayla, too, wakes up that morning with the world in the palm of her hand. A bright, well-loved Harvard law student, she has never really questioned the charmed path she found herself on.
With shocking suddenness, their lives are smashed to pieces in unimaginable ways. When a heartbroken Kayla runs away to a desert commune run by a charismatic mystic, Abigail rushes to save her, only to find that there is nothing more whole than a broken heart. In her journey through the secrets of her family and faith, Abigail must confront searing questions of betrayal, healing, and the true meaning of love. Tenth Song is a powerful story of mothers and daughters, the unshakable bonds of family, and one woman's journey of self-discovery in the face of crisis.
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Ragen (The Saturday Wife) brings a bitter intensity to this story of betrayal and a Jewish family brought to its knees by a financial scam to fund overseas terrorism. Boston accountant Adam Samuels gets ensnared in political and religious turmoil after his arrest for allegedly transferring more than $150 million to terror groups, charges that upend the lives of his wife, Abigail, and youngest daughter, Kayla, a Harvard law school student engaged to be married. The scandal bares the hidden cracks in this not-so-perfect family, and soon a panicked Kayla runs for the desert hills of Israel, where a charismatic leader opens her heart, and Abigail, chasing after, has her own epiphany. The arcs of self-discovery contrasts sharply with the darker portrait of ambition and hypocrisy that haunts the Samuels family, and though it doesn't always jibe Abigail's admirable strength turns unbelievably into mush as she embraces her inner hippie the unexpected turns Ragen puts on this family's path to healing and happiness are a pleasant surprise.
