True places : a novel

Title:

Author:

Yoerg, Sonja Ingrid, 1959- author.

Summary:

"A girl emerges from the woods, starved, ill, and alone... and collapses. Suzanne Blakemore hurtles along the Blue Ridge Parkway, away from her overscheduled and completely normal life, and encounters the girl. As Suzanne rushes her to the hospital, she never imagines how the encounter will change her -- a change she both fears and desperately needs. Suzanne has the perfect house, a successful husband, and a thriving family. But beneath the veneer of an ideal life, her daughter is rebelling, her son is withdrawing, her husband is oblivious to it all, and Suzanne is increasingly unsure of her place in the world. After her discovery of the ethereal sixteen-year-old who has never experienced civilization, Suzanne is compelled to invite Iris into her family's life and all its apparent privileges. But Iris has an independence, a love of solitude, and a discomfort with materialism that contrasts with everything the Blakemores stand for -- qualities that awaken in Suzanne first a fascination, then a longing. Now Suzanne can't help but wonder: Is she destined to save Iris, or is Iris the one who will save her?"-- Provided by publisher.

General Note:

Includes discussion questions.

Edition:

First edition.

Physical Description:

347 pages ; 22 cm

Genre:

Domestic fiction.

Subject Term:

Married women -- Fiction.

Mothers -- Fiction.

Orphans -- Fiction.

Teenage girls -- Fiction.

Families -- Fiction.

Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Blue Ridge Parkway (N.C. and Va.) -- Fiction.

Virginia -- Fiction.

Publisher:

Lake Union Publishing,

Publication Date:

2019

ISBN:

9781503904781

9781503904552

Publication Information:

Seattle : Lake Union Publishing, [2019]

Call Number:

YOERG

Holds: Copies:

Available:*

Item Barcode	Collection	Call Number	Status	Item Holds
33607003447805	Adult Fiction	YOERG	Searching... Unknown	Searching... Unavailable

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Summary

An Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestseller.

" True Places is a beautiful reminder that though we may busy ourselves seeking what we want, what we need has an uncanny way of finding us." --Camille Pagán, bestselling author of Life and Other Near-Death Experiences

A girl emerges from the woods, starved, ill, and alone...and collapses.

Suzanne Blakemore hurtles along the Blue Ridge Parkway, away from her overscheduled and completely normal life, and encounters the girl. As Suzanne rushes her to the hospital, she never imagines how the encounter will change her--a change she both fears and desperately needs.

Suzanne has the perfect house, a successful husband, and a thriving family. But beneath the veneer of an ideal life, her daughter is rebelling, her son is withdrawing, her husband is oblivious to it all, and Suzanne is increasingly unsure of her place in the world. After her discovery of the ethereal sixteen-year-old who has never experienced civilization, Suzanne is compelled to invite Iris into her family's life and all its apparent privileges.

But Iris has an independence, a love of solitude, and a discomfort with materialism that contrasts with everything the Blakemores stand for--qualities that awaken in Suzanne first a fascination, then a longing. Now Suzanne can't help but wonder: Is she destined to save Iris, or is Iris the one who will save her?