PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
Best-seller Rivers
completes the five-generation Christian family saga she began in Her
Mother’s Hope (2010).
It’s 1951, and Hildemara is back in the hospital
with recurring tuberculosis, so her mother Marta moves in to care for
her grandchildren Charlie and Carolyn. Charlie is the light of their
lives while Carolyn is neglected, with unfortunate consequences in her
college years, including alcoholism and pregnancy. Single, unemployed,
and with a baby to raise, Carolyn moves back home, where the past
repeats itself. Her mother lays down the law for her daughter and takes
over her granddaughter Dawn’s care, selfishly arranging matters to suit
herself and pushing Carolyn away, much as her mother had abused her. It
isn’t until Dawn is an adult, heavily pregnant and missing her beloved
army husband, who is serving in Iraq, that she realizes how each new
generation of women has hurt her forebears. With her stepfather and
mother-in-law’s help, Dawn resolves to stop the vicious cycle.
The
concluding book in Rivers’ drama examines mother-daughter relationships
in the context of faith, juxtaposed against a backdrop of world events