The Last Ballad, Wiley Cash Wiley Cash has a way with words. He develops the characters so well that the reader walks alongside them as the book unfolds. living their experiences with them. This story has its base in the life of a real character, Ella May Wiggins, and coincidentally, Wiley Cash has ...
My heart broke for Ella May. From the beginning chapters, I realized that Ella May’s life had been hard since day one but her heart was in a good place. With four children to care for and being just thirty, she took this responsibility seriously. Charlie, the man male adult in her life, was a low-li...
Good book even if it did make me angryThe country runs off the backs of the sometimes most hidden most underpaid but hardest working people. I believe this to be still mostly true today, though not as bad as the 1920's as represented in this book. I found the book very well written but hard to rea...
Ella May Wiggins is a 28 year-old woman with five kids, one who has already died. Six days a week she walks two mile to work the night shift at American Mill No.2, a textile mill in 1929, for $9.00 a week. With no husband, this is barely enough to keep her family afloat. Luckily, Ella may has the...
I enjoyed this engaging semi-thriller. The author drew me into the story by introducing characters, throwing them into the action while making the reader gradually pick up each character’s full backstory and motivations through hints, interactions, and character reflection as events unfold. I was re...
I do not know if the print book would come across as magnificently as the audio book, but the readers, Mark Bramhall, Lorna Raver, and Nick Sullivan, perfectly captured the spirit of the characters they portrayed. They literally became Adelaide Lyle, Jess Hall and Clem Barefield. Through their marve...
By Wiley Cash ISBN-13: 9780062088253 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Publication date: 1/28/2014 Pages: 240 Format: Audio My Rating: 5 Stars THIS DARK ROAD TO MERCY was captivating----a thrilling page-turner, and southern family drama----full of suspense and written from the heart (movie wo...
Title: This Dark Road to Mercy Who Wrote It? Wiley Cash, author of New York Times bestseller A Land More Kind Than Home. Plot in a Box: Two young sisters are "rescued" from foster care by their deadbeat ex-ballplayer junkie dad and taken on a cross-country road trip to see McGuire and Sosa...
No mother, a deadbeat dad, a foster home, and then a kidnapping. Easter and Ruby were placed in a foster home after their mother died since their father, Wade, had signed them away many years ago. But now he wanted them back. Wade was bad news all around. Easter followed all the rules an...
THIS DARK ROAD TO MERCY by Wiley Cash Two little girls who have just lost their mother to cancer are in foster care about to be sent to Alaska to live with Grandparents they have never seen. Enter their n’er-do-well father, a failed major league pitcher with a dark past and a sudden interest in his ...
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