Könyv Miss Emma's Regret Jo Anne Barnes

Miss Emma's Regret

A Novel Inspired by a True Story

Szerző: Jo Anne Barnes
Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Puha kötésű
Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten
Küldés 9-15 napon belül
5 539 Ft
She danced when the church said to stop, married a near stranger, built a dairy from nothing, and ra...

Információk a könyvről

Szerző
Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Puha kötésű
Kiadva
2026
oldal
212
EAN
9798198327146
Enbook ID
52816632
Súly
216
Méretek
127 x 203 x 12

Teljes leírás

She danced when the church said to stop, married a near stranger, built a dairy from nothing, and raised six daughters. Now at eighty-seven, Emma Sullivan Sharpe faces her hardest opponent yet: her five remaining daughters. As the pressure to move her to a nursing home reaches a fever pitch, Emma retreats to the only place they can't follow-her past.

This intimate Southern memoir weaves between Emma's stubborn standoff with her adult children and her past shaped by faith, doubt, and fierce independence. Her story spans generations, from a rebellious teenage girl thrown out of her Mississippi church, who married on impulse and paid for it in quiet ways for decades. A woman who loved fiercely, lost terribly, and kept her deepest regret locked away where no daughter could find it.

The intergenerational tension between a mother who has survived everything and daughters worn down by caregiving is both tender and painfully real. Emma's story is proof that the most surprising lives are often hiding in plain sight.