Mother of Pearl
Barrie Graeber has two great kids, a loving husband, and a respected job as a high school counselor in her close-knit community. Without warning, everything unravels when her teenage daughter, Pearl, is betrayed by friends and lashes out.Nothing prepares this mother for the helplessness that...
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Barrie Graeber has two great kids, a loving husband, and a respected job as a high school counselor in her close-knit community. Without warning, everything unravels when her teenage daughter, Pearl, is betrayed by friends and lashes out.Nothing prepares this mother for the helplessness that follows when her attempts to steer her daughter back on course fail and Pearl shuts her out . . . or when she discovers the unthinkable about her nemesis, the football coach.Emotionally riveting and profoundly moving, MOTHER OF PEARL brings us into the heart of a mother bound by an incredible burden, who ultimately finds she must recognize her own vulnerability and learn to trust in something much bigger.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781426733437 (1426733437)
Publish date: September 1st 2012
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Pages no: 303
Edition language: English
Barrie’s life is about to be completely turns upside down and nothing can prepare her for the devastation and pain her family is about to go through. The mother of two, wife, and friend – she feels like an outcast when she stands up for her daughter amid the chaos.It is so hard to put into words ho...
I honestly do not know how to review this book. I was blow away while reading. I could have finished this book in one sitting. However, I got to one part of this book crying so much I had to stop reading. I laid this book aside for about two weeks and picked it back up. I finished the book but m...