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Carry Yourself Back To Me
Deborah Reed
AmazonEncore
September 2011
On Sale: September 20, 2011
336 pages
ISBN: 1935597671
EAN: 9781935597674
Kindle: B004FPZ27C
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Famed alt-country artist Annie Walsh has more than enough
reason to sing her version of the blues, including a broken
heart, a stalled career, and a troubled family. Annie seeks
refuge from an upended love affair with her producer, Owen
Pettybone, by sequestering herself at home with her old dog
Detour, surrounded by a lush Florida tangelo grove. There,
she spends her days furiously sanding down the house’s every
veneer in a vain attempt at erasing the painful memory of
the love she lost. Soon, however, this quiet, small town
existence—far from recording studios, ardent fans, and
affairs of the heart—comes crashing down around her. A
violent murder connected to her brother Calder threatens to
tear her family apart and forces Annie to shore up her
loyalties and uproot profound disappointments from her
distant past. The evidence stacks against Calder, compounded
by his lifelong affliction with Tourette syndrome that
causes some in the community to cast aspersions on the
soundness of his mind. As the circumstances converge to challenge lifetime ties and
forge unexpected new bonds, this soulful, stirring novel
shifts its narrative from an imperiled and ever-changing
present, where each hour brings an unforeseen and unwelcome
piece of news, to the poignant childhood days of first
allegiances and life-altering loss. Like a fine and forlorn
love ballad, the gifted, conflicted Annie lulls the reader
into a journey through love and loss that mines the
mysterious, and, at times, paradoxical rhythms of the human
heart. As vibrant as Annie's treasured tangelo grove, Carry
Yourself Back to Me cultivates an always tender, sometimes
tart, portrait of one family’s regret and redemption.
Inflected with melancholy and redeemed by melody, this
deeply affecting novel is certain to strike a resonant chord
with music fans and lovers of fine fiction everywhere.
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