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Taken from the cover "In the backwoods of Mississippi, Jewel and her husband are truly blessed: they have five fine children. When Brenda Kay is born in 1943, Jewel gives thanks for a healthy baby, last born and most welcome. Jewel is a story of how quickly a life can chance; how an unforeseen event can set us on a course without reason or compass.
In this story is the woman's devotion to the child who is both a blessing and a burden, Brett Lott has created a mother-daughter relationship of matchless intensity and beatury, and one of the finest, heroines in contemporary American fiction."
I loved this book!! It is a whopping 535 pages and worth every single minute of it. A true story of a woman's courage in raising her disabled daughter in a time when disabilities were shunned.
Taken from the cover "In the backwoods of Mississippi, Jewel and her husband are truly blessed: they have five fine children. When Brenda Kay is born in 1943, Jewel gives thanks for a healthy baby, last born and most welcome. Jewel is a story of how quickly a life can chance; how an unforeseen event can set us on a course without reason or compass.
In this story is the woman's devotion to the child who is both a blessing and a burden, Brett Lott has created a mother-daughter relationship of matchless intensity and beatury, and one of the finest, heroines in contemporary American fiction."
I loved this book!! It is a whopping 535 pages and worth every single minute of it. A true story of a woman's courage in raising her disabled daughter in a time when disabilities were shunned.
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