Agnes
Lesbian General Fiction
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- £4.49
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- £4.49
Publisher Description
Sandy Parker left and never looked back after Hurricane Agnes washed her childhood home into the Susquehanna River. Her lover, Jeannie Bennett, died in the flood, and although Sandy went on to live an extraordinary life, she regrets that she never really said good-bye. Now, Sandy returns to bury her grandmother and finally find closure with Jeannie. Instead, she uncovers secrets long buried in the debris of the flood, secrets that at least one person is willing to kill to protect. Will Sandy discover the truth that will change her life forever, or will a murderer put another Parker in the grave?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At its core a tale of love and conspiracy, this debut work by Maddox, set in the Poconos, is a literary amble through the family history of Sandy Parker, a lesbian whose secret life is destroyed and remade in the flood that changes the lives of her and the people she loves. Sandy s grandmother s obituary sets off this intriguing tale of family secrets and the aftermath of disaster. It takes patience to wade through the meandering fragments of family history and irrelevant background detailof the characters thoughts and actions that frame these frequent detours. Like listening to an elderly relative who gets caught up in the minutiae of a remembrance, the tale may be worth hearing, but only if you have the patience or the taste for drawn-out tales of the days of yore and how they seep into the present.
