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Good Hope Road
Lisa Wingate
In a time of crisis, two women come together—and set off down a road of hope...
Twenty-year-old Jenilee Lane, whose dreams are as narrow
as the sky is wide, doesn’t imagine any good could come
out of the tornado that has ripped across the Missouri
farmland where she makes her home. But some inner spark
compels her to take action. To rescue her elderly neighbor
Eudora Gibson from the cellar in which she’s been trapped.
To make her way to the nearby town of Poetry, where the
townspeople have begun to gather in the only building left
standing. To collect from the devastated landscape
fragments of life that lie strewn about in the tornado’s
wake: letters, photographs, and mementos that might mean
something to people who have lost everything. Eudora Gibson didn’t think Jenilee had it in her. But the
girl she’s hardly noticed for years is now surprising her—
stepping forward with a bravery that inspires Eudora to
face her own bitter past. Brought close by tragedy, the
two will learn lessons about the resilience of the human
spirit and the ties that make a community strong. And
together, they will travel to a place that once lay beyond
their dreams.
NAL Accent, April 2005
ISBN #0451214676 352 pages Paperback (reprint) $6.99
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