Luce never considered herself mother material, but she ends up as the sole caregiver to her newly orphaned nephew and niece, a pair of emotionally-disturbed twins. In this beautifully-crafted novel, Frazier tells the story of three broken souls who find each other and work to heal themselves. It's...
Luce is a young woman living alone away from the town, across the lake as caretaker in an old, empty Lodge. It is a lonely life, but it is safe and peaceful which is exactly what she needs after she fled town. Her peace is disrupted though when the two stranger children are brought to her house. Dol...
The story of three souls damaged by fellow human beings, trying to find their way to a safe place in the world. The Appalachian mountains set the background for love, betrayal, and the search for faith in humanity.
I am basing this review off two people reading this book, myself and my husband. Both of us found the book to be incredibly boring. My husband actually stopped reading the book, while I did finish it, but it was incredibly difficult to do so.
Nightwoods is a story that evokes emotion from the reader, both through the story itself and the authentic voice of the narrator. Luce is a woman who has been cast aside by society and by herself, left on the fringe. She comes to be the caretaker of her murdered sister’s twins and from here, the s...
Not exactly a gripping book, but it has a charm to it. presented as the reminiscences of an old man, it tells the tale of Will Cooper, who starts life as a boy bound in service to a trader and sent, with just a map and a horse, to the Indian reservation. Set at the time fot he Indian clearances, it ...
This is by far one of my most favorite books of all time. It's heartbreaking in many ways, and yet uplifting. There is a deep truth hidden in these pages that never ceases to amaze me. It captures the inner thoughts of solitude in such an authentic and resonating way and I am amazed that I can read ...
This book was boring and poorly written. The characters are dull and have no real dimension. The character of Inman is absolutely unbearable and is not a character you are left feeling anything for at any point in the book. Quite frankly I was wishing for the character's death throughout so I wouldn...
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