Billie Waits and Margaret Baxter are sisters who grew up on
their father's diary farm in Solace, Georgia. But as they
became adults, their lives each took decidedly different
turns. Margaret married well, moved to nearby Marietta and
lived the upper middle class life she dreamed of. Billie
stayed home, got married, had a child and never left Solace.
But one summer, the two women's lives would once again
converge, and the bonds of sisterhood would slowly begin to
intertwine them back together again. It wouldn't be easy,
and it was surely bound to be painful, but when it's
family, love always softens the way back home.
In Patricia Sprinkle's new novel, HOLD UP THE SKY, she
tells the story of redemption and reconnection in a warm,
heartfelt tale that will leave the reader smiling through
their tears when they are not weeping with laughter.
When Margaret Baxter's husband leaves her and her two sons,
she packs up the car and heads home to Solace, the last
place on earth she wants to be but the only place on earth
where she needs to be. Moving in with her widowed father,
Maggie would soon relearn the country ways of her childhood
but not without a few hard lessons in the process.
Although she never left, Margaret's sister Billie had more
than a few trials of her own. Her husband left her right
after the birth of their disabled daughter, and has come up
missing lately. As Billie struggles to get by, Luke, a
childhood friend returns to lend a helping hand and Billie
soon learns to open her heart to new possibilities.
As the sisters learn to readjust to living near one another
again, their much-loved elderly housekeeper Mamie does her
best to teach them life skills that would see them through
the rest of their days. The ladies would be joined by
Emerita, a Mexican immigrant stranded near the farm, and
the foursome began relationships forged by the heat of a
summer kitchen and solidified in places of the heart that
only women can know so well.
HOLD UP THE SKY is a novel filled with humor, inspiration,
love and romance. Patricia Sprinkle reaches her readers
through her timeless storytelling skills, securing her
place as a favorite and beloved author among women fiction
writers today.
From a veteran writer new to the Accent list, a novel
about four women who find strength and insight in each
other.
Mamie is facing an overwhelming secret.
Margaret has lost her home. Billie can no longer care alone
for her disabled daughter. And Maria is living with an
untenable choice. When these four women come together to
live on a drought-stricken Georgia farm, they must open
their hearts, and share their burdens, before they can find
the bounty that lies hidden in tough times, and once again
see the glorious pattern of meaning in their lives.
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