Title: A Long Time Comin'
Author: Robin W. Pearson
Narrator: Robin Eller
Pages: 432
Audiobook: 11 hours 43 minutes (Oasis Audio)
Year: 2020
Genre: Woman’s Fiction
Publisher: Tyndale House
Format: Audiobook (also available in eBook, paperback, and hardcover)
About the book:
To hear Beatrice Agnew tell it, she entered the world with her mouth tightly shut. Just because she finds out she’s dying doesn’t mean she can’t keep it that way. If any of her children have questions about their daddy and the choices she made after he abandoned them, they’d best take it up with Jesus. There’s no room in Granny B’s house for regrets or hand-holding. Or so she thinks.
Her granddaughter, Evelyn Lester, shows up on Beatrice’s doorstep anyway, burdened with her own secret baggage. Determined to help her Granny B mend fences with her far-flung brood, Evelyn turns her grandmother’s heart and home inside out. Evelyn’s meddling uncovers a tucked-away box of old letters, forcing the two women to wrestle with their past and present pain as they confront the truth Beatrice has worked a lifetime to hide.
My review:
This is an incredibly thought-provoking woman’s fiction book!
I was caught up in this story from the very beginning. The characters are so well written that I could see them and their mannerisms right before my eyes.
The author has done an amazing job of writing the dialogue and spelling the words the way people in the south would pronounce them many times. In fact her spelling slowed my reading down immensely. After a few days I got frustrated that I wasn’t making more progress in the story and switched to the audio book.
The narrator did a marvelous job! I started by following along in the print book and that’s when I really understood the accuracy of the spelling. Her accents for the different characters made me able to picture these people as they interacted with each other.
The story had me thinking long and hard about how families interact with each other and how choices made by each person affects the whole family. It amazed me to recognize the long reach that there is when one person keeps a deep secret. The author did a wonderful job of bringing this truth out for the readers to see it.
I’m giving this wonderful story a rating of 5 stars. I highly recommend it.
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