Valerie, Jean & Me

Valerie, Jean and Promise feel like lucky sisters when their mother finally settles down for good with Daddy, the one man who is not father to any of them. Then they get baby brother Winston, and life seems better than they ever could have imagined during the hard years before Mommy got wise.
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Promise is, by nature, the family storyteller. She notices everything and eventually is able to make meaning of most of it, including Daddy's secret. When Bill emerges from the shadows shortly after an enormous loss, Promise's family changes with suffering and grows through love.
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VALERIE, JEAN AND ME is an evocative tale that deftly moves between Kentucky and Florida, between the 1960s and today, between what we think we know and what we didn't see coming. It's a story that drops the reader into the vividness of that earlier time, scratching an emotional itch for those who can't help remembering an era of aluminum Christmas trees, rotary phones, and Make Room For Daddy.
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Following her successful first novel (Tilt-A-Whirl), author Tracy Coffee Gayle once again proves that she has earned a rightful place among the most gifted word-weavers. You never want her stories to end. ~ www.MotesBooks.com ~