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Nearer Than the Sky
By: T Greenwood
ISBN: 1306681618
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
Publication Date: 1/1/2011
Format: Audio
My Rating: 4 Stars
A long- time fan of talented author, T. Greenwood, she delivers another compelling story of an unexplained mental disorder, Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, and it’s devastating effects surrounding this troubling illness and the family members with NEARER THAN THE SKY.
This is my eighth book by Greenwood, a "master storyteller", she is not afraid to tackle highly-charged topics, social issues, and heartfelt emotions of the heart with compassion, insight and depth—once again delivers a profound an absorbing tale.
At age 33, India is residing in Maine with her lover of fourteen years, who owns a restaurant and film theatre. Her dreaded phone call comes once again from her younger sister, Lily informing her of her mother’s hospitalization. This time it is lead poisoning and it appears to be self- inflected. Her mother has a habit of thinking she is sick and crying wolf and is paranoid of all diseases and illnesses. Lily has an infant daughter, Violet which is sick and needs Indie to return home to Arizona to help with the care of their mother.
So many tragic events and unpleasant memories in Indie’s life as she reflects back to the disturbing truths, and haunting childhood; starting when she was struck by lightning, and her older brother’s death. Her younger sister had so many illnesses and now baby Violet? Lily and her mom were close and then it was India and her special needs’ brother. India was not close to her mom and loved her dad, until one day he left as assume he could not handle his wife’s problems any longer.
Indie believes after the encounter with the lightning, she has possessed special abilities and is more intuitive as we learn more about her childhood layer by layer. Is this condition, genetic and has Lily developed her mom’s illness and what if she harms her own child, and what about herself and her future?
A well- written and heartbreaking exploration of one family’s journey, and as adults, seeking desperately to cop and overcome a severely dysfunctional childhood and a broken past. A book of acceptance and forgiveness and of courage; a battle of mental illness with deep emotional human dynamics. I listened to the audio version and Hillary Huber delivered an engaging performance with a tragic, disturbing, yet beautiful story.
After reading an advanced reading copy of Greenwood’s upcoming latest book, THE FOREVER BRIDGE , highly recommend coming Feb 24, 2015, I realized I had missed this title and one other, “Undressing the Moon”,which I plan starting next.
If you have not read any of T. Greenwood books, would urge you to take the journey, as she captivates you with her lyrical and magical prose, like no other! Highly recommend.
This is my eighth book by Greenwood, a "master storyteller", she is not afraid to tackle highly-charged topics, social issues, and heartfelt emotions of the heart with compassion, insight and depth—once again delivers a profound an absorbing tale.
At age 33, India is residing in Maine with her lover of fourteen years, who owns a restaurant and film theatre. Her dreaded phone call comes once again from her younger sister, Lily informing her of her mother’s hospitalization. This time it is lead poisoning and it appears to be self- inflected. Her mother has a habit of thinking she is sick and crying wolf and is paranoid of all diseases and illnesses. Lily has an infant daughter, Violet which is sick and needs Indie to return home to Arizona to help with the care of their mother.
So many tragic events and unpleasant memories in Indie’s life as she reflects back to the disturbing truths, and haunting childhood; starting when she was struck by lightning, and her older brother’s death. Her younger sister had so many illnesses and now baby Violet? Lily and her mom were close and then it was India and her special needs’ brother. India was not close to her mom and loved her dad, until one day he left as assume he could not handle his wife’s problems any longer.
Indie believes after the encounter with the lightning, she has possessed special abilities and is more intuitive as we learn more about her childhood layer by layer. Is this condition, genetic and has Lily developed her mom’s illness and what if she harms her own child, and what about herself and her future?
A well- written and heartbreaking exploration of one family’s journey, and as adults, seeking desperately to cop and overcome a severely dysfunctional childhood and a broken past. A book of acceptance and forgiveness and of courage; a battle of mental illness with deep emotional human dynamics. I listened to the audio version and Hillary Huber delivered an engaging performance with a tragic, disturbing, yet beautiful story.
After reading an advanced reading copy of Greenwood’s upcoming latest book, THE FOREVER BRIDGE , highly recommend coming Feb 24, 2015, I realized I had missed this title and one other, “Undressing the Moon”,which I plan starting next.
If you have not read any of T. Greenwood books, would urge you to take the journey, as she captivates you with her lyrical and magical prose, like no other! Highly recommend.
