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Rent Time Is a River
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Narrator: Monroe, Mary Alice
Format: Unabridged-MP3, Paperback
Publisher: Brilliance Corporation
Published: Jul 2008
Genre: Fiction - General
Retail Price: $24.95
Synopsis
With her evocative prose and finely tuned insights into family relationships, Mary Alice Monroe has earned legions of fans and numerous awards. Reminiscent of Anne Rivers Siddons, her writing is a delightful blend of southern authenticity and rich emotional drama, and she delivers an engaging and complex novel with Time Is a River.
Mia Landon travels to a mountain sanctuary near Asheville, North Carolina, while she begins her recovery from breast cancer. There, in the cabin at Watkins Glenn, Mia discovers the long lost journal of a well-known fly-fisherwoman from the 1920s, Kate Watkins. Reading Kate's inspiring words recounting her sensational adventures on the river coaxes an otherwise withdrawn Mia from her shell and gives her the desire to reconnect with the world around her. And as she learns to fish, she also uncovers surprising secrets that span generations - and a hidden scandal that has the power to change not only her own life, but also those who live at Watkins Glenn.
Entralling, heartwarming, and moving, Time Is a River is a novel that wonderfully captures the complexity of human connections - to the natural world, to each other, to one's self, and ultimately to one's soul.
Reviews
I purchased this book, my first by Ms. Monroe, and couldn't put it down. It is a wonderful book of a journey that many women may need to take. . . it is filled with hope, sadness at what is lost to us, faith, inner strength, condemnation by others, resolution and acceptance, and inspiration to go on when we may not want to . . .so many things rolled into one book. It is the kind of book that a woman hopes would happen to her at a time in her life when she needs it the most.