Linda Crew Bücher
Dieser Autor befasst sich mit tiefgreifenden und oft herausfordernden Aspekten der menschlichen Erfahrung, von der Bewältigung von Krisen bis hin zu persönlichen Kämpfen mit der Sucht nach verschreibungspflichtigen Medikamenten. Ursprünglich für junge Leser geschrieben und oft vor dem Hintergrund historischer Ereignisse angesiedelt, wendet sich sein Werk nun universellen Themen des Überlebens und der Heilung zu. Der Stil des Autors ist scharfsinnig und zutiefst persönlich, wodurch er den Lesern nicht nur einen schonungslosen Einblick in seine eigenen Kämpfe bietet, sondern auch ein Gefühl des Trostes und möglicher Erlösung. Seine offene Erzählweise dient sowohl als warnendes Beispiel als auch als Zeugnis für die Widerstandsfähigkeit des menschlichen Geistes.
Sundara fled Cambodia with her aunt's family to escape the Khmer Rouge army when she was thirteen, leaving behind her parents, her brother and sister, and the boy she had loved since she was a child.Now, four years later, she struggles to fit in at her Oregon high school and to be "a good Cambodian girl" at home. A good Cambodian girl never dates; she waits for her family to arrange her marriage to a Cambodian boy. Yet Sundara and Jonathan, an extraordinary American boy, are powerfully drawn to each other. Haunted by grief for her lost family and for the life left behind, Sundara longs to be with him. At the same time she wonders, Are her hopes for happiness and new life in America disloyal to her past and her people?
Family Trees: A Novel of the Northwest
- 362 Seiten
- 13 Lesestunden
Corvallis, Oregon, 2009. The economy is still in the tank from the Great Recession, and the Garlands, owners of the largest family-owned forest tracts in the county, are reeling from a series of devastating personal losses. Nobody's having a harder time coping than Will Trask, the son-in-law who grew up in a logging family in the neighboring timber town of Eden Mills. Everyone loves the trees, but Will, now a forestry consultant and real estate agent, faces a unique struggle in straddling the two worlds--those who own the forests and those who cut them down. The loss of his wife, the cherished daughter of the Garland clan, has been a crushing blow, complicating his precarious family position. Family Trees is a story of the ways in which people who are stuck find the means to break free and move on. It examines the value as well as the limits of family ties, celebrating, above all, the courage it takes to recognize the power of the present moment, the power of now. Award-winning author of the beloved Children of the River and A Heart for Any Fate, Linda Crew now delivers her long-awaited Oregon family saga, a life-affirming and perfect comfort-of-a-read for these turbulent times.
