4 1/2 . Cannot wait for her next book.
All of this realistic, but it made for a story that I felt I had read before and because of that it took me until the last third of the book to really be engaged. It encompasses many generations of sorrow, rejection, and yet the characters were for the most part able to overcome such trauma. Please check your email to confirm your subscription. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Not tons of characters to try to remember. When I know something about the life of the author and truly believe that person has written from their heart, well there goes another star! Disclaimer: I was born and raised in Ohio, more specifically in Mansfield, Ohio, the hometown of Sherrod Brown (aww Connie the reference to Jones Chips and Lawsons dip❤️) married to a Clevelander, living in Columbus.
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It encompasses many generations of sorrow, rejection, and yet the characters were for the most part able to overcome such trauma. Very disappointing. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. A basketball star, Brick has the chance to escape his abusive father and become the first person in his blue-collar family to attend college. The timeline is wrong at the beginning of the book, too.
By name.After the fourth waitress smiled and waved at us, I narrowed my eyes and said, “I am so on to you.”Ten years later, this same conversation plays out every time he makes up a word in Scrabble.I hope you aren’t disappointed that I have no advice on how to find the love of your life in middle age. Took about half the book to become engrossed in the story.
Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Sherrod had just turned 50. I stretched it out because I was enjoying the read and understanding and recognizing the humanity of its characters. They elope and move to Erietown where Brick gets a job at the power plant and Ellie makes a home for him and their daughter Sam.The story of high school sweethearts Brick and Ellie who give up their dreams of college and nursing school when Ellie becomes pregnant their senior year. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition.Something went wrong. Such a compelling book. Praise “Connie Schultz’s The Daughters of Erietown is a quiet force of a novel. This book broke me wide open. Expect to find it difficult to put this book down. Full disclosure, I follow Pulitzer Prize winning journalist/author Connie Schultz on Facebook and Twitter. The characters are not very interesting and neither is the setting but the story does eventually pick up. Great character development and storytelling. of our I did read an ARC, so perhaps this will be corrected in the final release. Although he won’t let Sam accept a full scholarship to Smith — he sees that as charity — she’s allowed to attend state college and have a career. Wonderful read - thank you Goodreads for this gem!Connie Schultz is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, a nationally syndicated columnist with Creators Syndicate, and Professional in Residence in the journalism school at Kent State University, her alma mater. Please try again. We were already happy, leading lives with meaning, surrounded by family and friends we loved.Maybe that kind of joy generates its own swirl of wind that sweeps the right people into our lives.