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Zusatztext "A complex tale of Southern love and life, one with many layers...The shades blend together to create the most unusual, and impressionable, characters." -- Clarion Ledger (Jackson, MS) Informationen zum Autor Darnell Arnoult is the author of the novel Sufficient Grace (Simon & Schuster) and two poetry collections, What Travels With Us and Galaxie Wagon (LSU Press), with shorter works in journals and anthologies. She has received the SIBA Poetry Book of the Year Prize, the Weatherford Award, the Thomas and Lillie D. Chaffin Award, and the Mary Frances Hobson Award in Arts and Letters and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She lives with her family in Mebane, NC. For more about Darnell and her workshops, visit darnellarnoult.net. Klappentext Gracie Hollaman hears voices in her head that tell her to get in a car and leave her entire life behind. At home, her husband Ed begins a new life for himself. Arnoults debut novel explores the power of unconditional love and faith--and the many ways they come to pass. Zusammenfassung Set against the backdrop of two neighboring Southern towns! Sufficient Grace is the powerful! affecting story of two families over the course of a year! from one Easter season to the next. One quiet spring day! Gracie Hollaman hears voices in her head that tell her to get in her car and leave her entire life behind -- her home! her husband! her daughter! her very identity. Gracie's subsequent journey releases her genius for painting and effects profound changes in the lives of everyone around her. A spellbinding work! Sufficient Grace explores the power of personal transformation and redemption! and the many ordinary and extraordinary ways they come to pass through faith! love! motherhood! art! even food. This poignant! poetic study of the human condition affirms the enduring importance of relationships and the strength we derive from them! even though we sometimes have to leave behind an old identity in order to discover our soul. Beautifully paced! filled with unforgettable characters! Sufficient Grace reveals the vital place that spirit and belonging have in every inner life -- and in the everyday world. ...
Autorentext
Darnell Arnoult is the author of the novel Sufficient Grace (Simon & Schuster) and two poetry collections, What Travels With Us and Galaxie Wagon (LSU Press), with shorter works in journals and anthologies. She has received the SIBA Poetry Book of the Year Prize, the Weatherford Award, the Thomas and Lillie D. Chaffin Award, and the Mary Frances Hobson Award in Arts and Letters and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She lives with her family in Mebane, NC. For more about Darnell and her workshops, visit darnellarnoult.net.
Klappentext
Gracie Hollaman hears voices in her head that tell her to get in a car and leave her entire life behind. At home, her husband Ed begins a new life for himself. Arnoults debut novel explores the power of unconditional love and faith--and the many ways they come to pass.
Zusammenfassung
Set against the backdrop of two neighboring Southern towns, Sufficient Grace is the powerful, affecting story of two families over the course of a year, from one Easter season to the next. One quiet spring day, Gracie Hollaman hears voices in her head that tell her to get in her car and leave her entire life behind -- her home, her husband, her daughter, her very identity. Gracie's subsequent journey releases her genius for painting and effects profound changes in the lives of everyone around her.
A spellbinding work, Sufficient Grace explores the power of personal transformation and redemption, and the many ordinary and extraordinary ways they come to pass through faith, love, motherhood, art, even food. This poignant, poetic study of the human condition affirms the enduring importance of relationships and the strength we derive from them, even though we sometimes have to leave behind an old identity in order to discover our soul.
Beautifully paced, filled with unforgettable characters, Sufficient Grace reveals the vital place that spirit and belonging have in every inner life -- and in the everyday world.