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A Novel
Gallery Books
February 2011
On Sale: February 8, 2011
Featuring: Amaryllis
384 pages
ISBN: 1439156891
EAN: 9781439156896
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Women's Fiction Contemporary
In the stirring tradition of The Secret Life of Bees and
The Poisonwood Bible, Amaryllis in Blueberry explores the
complexity of human relationships set against an
unforgettable backdrop. Told through the haunting voices
of Dick and Seena Slepy and their four daughters,
Christina Meldrumrs"s soulful novel weaves together the
past and the present of a family harmed-and healed-by
buried secrets. "Maybe, unlike hope, truth couldn't be contained in a
jar. . . ." Meet the Slepys: Dick, the stern doctor, the naive
husband, a man devoted to both facts and faith; Seena, the
storyteller, the restless wife, a mother of four, a lover
of myth. And their children, the Marys: Mary Grace, the
devastating beauty; Mary Tessa, the insistent inquisitor;
Mary Catherine, the saintly, lost soul; and finally,
Amaryllis, Seenar's unspoken favorite, born with the
mystifying ability to sense the future, touch the past,
and distinguish the truth tellers from the most convincing
liar of all. When Dick insists his family move from Michigan to the
unfamiliar world of Africa for missionary work, he canrs"t
possibly foresee how this new land and its people will
entrance and change his daughters-and himself-forever. Nor
can he predict how Africa will spur his wife Seena toward
an old but unforgotten obsession. In fact, Seena may be
falling into a trance of her own. . . .
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