It's the time of the year when people are starting to think
about those holiday
gifts. This year for fans of Luanne Rice might I suggest
her latest book, THE LETTERS? THE LETTERS was co-authored
with Joseph Monninger, and this long
time fan of Ms. Rice found this to be an interesting concept.
Sam and Hadley West had a long loving marriage. When
tragedy struck they
found themselves unable to communicate their feelings and
were on the
verge of divorce. Each of them left their long time home in
what I perceived
to be a journey of self-discovery.
As the book title indicates the entire story is told in the
form of letters
exchanged between the two. Why I think this was a good
effort at exploring
the emotions being experienced by Sam and Hadley I do feel
as though a bit
of the grittier emotion was somewhat missing, as the couple
worked through
the tragedy that separated them.
To find out whether or not they save their marriage you'll
have to read the
book for yourself, or perhaps gift it to a friend, and then
borrow it?
Is there any mystery greater than those we love the
most?
In this remarkable collaboration, New
York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice and Joseph
Monninger combine their unique talents to create a
powerfully moving novel of an estranged husband and wife
through a series of searching, intimate letters. By way of
a correspondence so achingly real you’ll forget it’s
fiction, they trace the history of a love affair and of a
family before, and after, the moment that changed the
course of two people’s journey forever.
Sam and
Hadley West are both trying in their own ways to survive
after the unthinkable loss of their only son in Alaska.
For Sam, a sports journalist, acceptance means an arduous
trek by dogsled across the bleak and beautiful arctic
wilderness to find the place where Paul died. For Hadley,
it means renting a benignly haunted, salt-soaked cottage
off the Maine coast where she begins to paint again.
Now, at opposite ends of the country, waiting for
their divorce to be finalized, they begin to exchange
letters by post, missives filled with longing and truths
they’ve never before voiced, as they recall their marriage—
its magic moments and its challenges—and begin to
rediscover the reasons they fell in love in the first
place.
As Sam risks his life to reach the remote
crash site, Hadley begins an equally hazardous inner
journey to a rendezvous with the mad grief of a mother’s
heart. At the place where all else is lost, they will meet
again….
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