Three sisters have had difficult lives, one as a result of
following her dreams and two at the hands of their
dysfunctional family.
Alicia Day has wanted to be an actress since watching the
Oscars as a child and learning that people can get paid and
receive recognition for pretending. After moving to
Hollywood and having little to show for it other than a
couple of friends and a forgettable straight-to-DVD series
of movies, she wonders whether the gods of Hollywood will
ever shine upon her.
Hope Teasdale, a bank manager and widowed single mother,
still remembers the day her father gunned down her mother
right before her eyes. She wants nothing
to do with her incarcerated father or her hard-hearted
paternal grandmother, who believes the tragedy was Hope's
mother's fault and that Hope should forgive and forget.
Heaven Jetter is the youngest of the three sisters. As does
big sister Hope, Heaven suffers from the memory of their
parents' abusive relationship and their mother's demise.
But unlike Hope, Heaven's heart is big and trusting, even
if, much like her mother did, she chooses the wrong people
to trust.
When Heaven learns she and Hope have a secret half-sister,
she's determined to find Alicia and develop a relationship
with her. Wary at first, Alicia finds herself opening up
to, and adopting a nurturing posture toward, her younger and
misguided sister. Hope, however, wants nothing to do with
Heaven, whose behavior and choices have hurt Hope in the
past, nor with Alicia or anything else to do with their
father. She trusts no one. All of the sisters are
searching for a way to get to a peaceful place in life,
albeit by way of different paths.
Cheryl Robinson's WHEN I GET WHERE I'M GOING is another
heart-wrenching story from a talented author about enduring
and healing family relationships. Set in Detroit, this
story delves into how family dysfunction affects individuals
in different ways and how much personal choice is a factor
in overcoming that dysfunction. Heaven realizes her life is
messed up and why so she tries to make good decisions, even
if the tentacles of the past seem to hold her down. Hope is
in denial, assuming simply that her life is what she makes
it and that the past has nothing to do with her. Alicia,
unaware of her father and his misdeeds, demonstrates how
family is what you make it, but she also illustrates how
some things may be passed through the bloodline whether one
is aware of certain familial patterns or not.
For me, this was Heaven's story. She's the baby of her
family, as am I. She has a desire to know, and have strong
relationships with, her family, as do I. She's willing to
admit her mistakes and do what she can to make up for them.
I try to do the same. Her decisions would not be mine, but
I understood that they rose out of loyalty and her yearning
for family. I found myself eager to discover how her
story would end. The beauty of WHEN I GET WHERE I'M GOING
is that the focal character could easily be any of the three
sisters. Some may connect more with Hope, whose
stubbornness I couldn't fathom, or Alicia, whose persistence
in the face of mounting obstacles was admirable, to say the
least. Regardless of which character readers choose, they
will enjoy an engaging, stirring tale.
An uplifting novel about three sisters helping to fulfill
each other's dreams.
Alicia Day, Hope Teesdale, and
Heaven Jetter are three estranged sisters, each seeking
their own silver lining in their otherwise cloudy lives. Up
until this point, they've never known the meaning of family.
Until fate brings them together and they discover that gifts
come from unlikely places, and that when you have sisters,
you won't ever again have to go it alone...
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