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Book Review of The Arms of God

The Arms of God
The Arms of God
Author: Lynne Hinton
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Hardcover
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Alice has come to terms with her abandonment when her elderly mother shows up on her doorstep. The author then gives us a tumultuous history back to Alice's grandmother. In so, revealing how women in this family expertly close off their hearts.
The author spends most of the book telling us the story of Olivia's troubled childhood and the events leading up to Alice's abandonment. In the very end of this novel we finally realize how so much pain really can bring one to "The Arms of God"