By the Light of a Thousand Stars
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Hope for a Crumbling Home Restoring the Joy in One Family's Southern Hospitality
If you were one of the many readers across the country who raved over Some Wildflower in My Heart, Jamie Langston Turner's impressive new book will stand out among new releases as something you'll surely want to read. If you aren't familiar with this talented author or the wonderful small South Carolina town she has created, be ready to experience the profound joy of reading a great book. Introducing readers to another cast of indelible characters who will populate your heart and capture your imagination, Turner turns her attention to the lives of two very different families in capturing this second slice of Southern life.
It would seem, from the outside, that the Chewnings and the Biddles have nothing in common but a street address. Reserved and orderly, Catherine Biddle has ruled over an immaculate house and pristine family but to her horror, now sees the façade crumbling from the inside. Into her world come a dizzy-headed sister-in-law and some new neighbors, the Chewnings, a chaotic family whose cluttered house belies the joy and peace that the family they radiate.
With the same expansive depth of emotion and unmatched literary excellence of her first book, By the Light of a Thousand Stars explores the universal themes of seeking eternal things in a temporal world. The town of Filbert, like the worlds of Jan Karon, Anne Tyler, and Kaye Gibbons, continues to be populated with honest, thoughtful, and warmly humorous characters whose trials and joys engage and satisfy even the stringent of readers.
Born in Mississippi, Jamie has lived in the South all her life, currently residing with her husband and son in South Carolina, where she teaches Creative Writing and Poetry Writing at Bob Jones University. Some Wildflower in My Heart is her second novel. The Suncatchers, published in 1995 by Thomas Nelson, was her first. Jamie is an active member of Heritage Bible Church. Her hobbies include reading, tennis, and needlework. size : 5.4 x 8.3
By the Light of a Thousand Stars,Jamie Langston Turner,Bethany House Publishers,0764221531,Fiction,Fiction - Religious,Literary,Popular American Fiction,Religious - General,Sagas
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