Greenslade is a fresh new voice that you are sure to hear again."-Bobbie Ann Mason, author of The Girl in the Blue Beret I was entirely absorbed in their precarious situation and their desire to find her, yet aware that their mother's gift was the resourcefulness they needed to survive. The yearning of these two vulnerable young sisters for their mother, who has disappeared, is palpable. "The longing for a lost mother has rarely been expressed so soulfully. Loved."-Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You The characters are so alive, you feel them breathing on the page. "A harrowing, haunting, and exquisitely written novel about sisters, mothers, daughters, and whom we love and why. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. It is an exquisitely written ode to sisters, mothers, daughters, and to a woman's responsibility to herself and those she loves. Heartwarming and lushly imagined, Shelter celebrates the love between two sisters and the complicated bonds of family. Even as the sisters struggle to understand how their mother could abandon them, they keep alive the hope that she is fighting her way back to the daughters who adore her and who need her so desperately. With deep compassion and sparkling prose, Frances Greenslade's mesmerizing debut takes us inside the extraordinary strength of these two girls as they are propelled from the quiet, natural freedom in which they were raised to a world they can't begin to fathom. Then her worst fears come true: Not long after Maggie's tenth birthday, their father is killed in a logging accident, and a few months later, their mother abruptly drops the girls at a neighbor's house, promising to return. But at night, Maggie-a born worrier-would count the freckles on her father's weathered arms, listening for the peal of her mother's laughter in the kitchen, and never stop praying to keep them all safe from harm. Seasons in their tiny rustic home were peppered with wilderness hikes, building shelters from pine boughs and telling stories by the fire with their doting father and beautiful, adventurous mother. A gorgeous, poetic literary debut from award-winning author Frances Greenslade, Shelter is a brilliant coming-of-age story of two strong, brave sisters searching for their mother.įor sisters Maggie and Jenny growing up in the Pacific mountains in the early 1970s, life felt nearly perfect.
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