Home to Holly Springs
A Father Tim Novel
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4.4 • 129 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Join Father Tim on a profoundly personal journey back to his childhood home in this charming novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon's Mitford series.
Thirty-eight years have passed since Father Tim Kavanagh left his Mississippi hometown, determined not to return. Then he receives a handwritten note postmarked Holly Springs. Cryptic and unsigned, it says only Come home. These two words compel him to make the most challenging journey of his life.
Traveling to his boyhood home doesn’t merely take Father Tim across hundreds of miles. Thanks to a thousand sights and smells, he also travels back through memories—some fond and some he’s tried for nearly forty years to forget, from his quick-to-anger father and his lovingly tender mother to the picturesque small town he’d tried desperately to leave behind. And once Father Tim discovers who was behind the mysterious note, a truth is revealed that will change his life—forever.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Fish paleontologist Shubin illuminates the subject of evolution with humor and clarity in this compelling look at how the human body evolved into its present state. Parsing the millennia-old genetic history of human form is a natural project for Shubin, who chairs the department of organismal biology and anatomy at the University of Chicago, and was co-discoverer of Tiktaalik, a 375-million-year-old fossil fish whose flat skull, limbs and finger, toe, ankle and wrist bones, provide a link between fish and the earliest land-dwelling creatures. Shubin moves smoothly through the anatomical spectrum, finding ancient precursors to human teeth in a 200-million-year-old fossil of the mouse-size part animal, part reptile tritheledont; he also notes cellular similarities between humans and sponges. Other fossils reveal the origins of our senses, from the eye , to that wonderful Rube Goldberg contraption, the ear. Shubin excels at explaining the science, making each discovery an adventure, whether to a Pennsylvania roadcut or a stony outcrop beset by polar bears and howling Arctic winds. I can imagine few things more beautiful or intellectually profound than finding the basis for our humanity... nestled inside some of the most humble creatures that ever lived..., he writes, and curious readers are likely to agree. Illus.
Customer Reviews
Home to holly springs
I wasn't sure this book would be a good as the Mitford series, but I'm glad to say this book was great. I always wondered about Peggy Cramer and "his Peggy". Now the mystery has been answered! Fantastic story! Never get tired of these characters!
And just like that, she ruined the entire series.
I love pd Mitford books, the whimsical, sweet, light hearted fun is a delight. But this weird, melodramatic, poorly edited and far fetched mess is the worst. I would never wish this in anyone. And to include every character who ever crossed path with Timothy the child in a short visit back 38 years later is not miraculous as she portrays, but just a pathetic attempt to remain relevant. Have mercy. Probably won’t finish reading her series after this book.
It is always sad when a great author ruins their earlier work trying to keep “producing” long after the magic is gone.
Random
I've ready many of the Father Tim series and enjoyed them very much. It seems though that Karon's writing is becoming random and disjointed. It's very distracting and tiresome. While I do still enjoy the plots, her writing style is getting harder and harder to follow comfortably. I'll continue to struggle my way to the end, but I wish I was enjoying it more.