My review of The Tendering Storm by Jane Kirkpatrick
Posted by:
Michelle Sutton on
August 8, 2007 at
10:52PM EST
From the Publisher:
Emma
Giesy, a strong-willed German-American, believes her young family will
thrive in the light of their newfound freedom, after she and her
husband branch off from their close-knit and repressive religious
community in the spring of 1856.
Determined to raise her
children on her own terms, Emma suddenly finds herself alone and
pregnant with her third child, struggling to keep her family secure in
the remote coastal forest of the Washington Territory. With loss and
disappointment as her fuel, she kindles a fire that soon threatens to
consume her, making a series of poor choices that take her into
dangerous relationships.
As clouds of despair close in, she must
decide whether to continue in her own waning strength or to humble
herself and accept help from the very people she once so eagerly left
behind.
Based on a True Story
My review:
A Tendering in the Storm
is a must-read for historical fiction lovers. If you want insight into
the hardships from the 19th century pioneers who left everything to
move west hoping for a better life, then you'll love this story. If you
find oppressive religious groups intriguing, you'll want to check this
story out. If you'd like to reflect on how few rights women had in the
mid-1860s then this is the book for you! To quote a cliche, We've come a long way, baby!
After
finding the author's bio and reading that she is a certified social
worker, I now see where she got her insight for this book. No
dysfunction is easy to understand. All people are complex. But there
are certain truths that exist in human nature and the author
insightfully captured them all. Her illumination of the human heart and
certain domestic issues is superb. I can't say what those issues are or
I'll blow part of the storyline, but I will say that the subtly of how
people are lured from their good senses--because of sometimes desperate
situations--is expertly shown in this novel.
I loved this story. It's real. It's deep. It's edgy...and it's not at all boring.
A Tendering in the Storm was published by Waterbrook and released in April 2007.
