"A story that is like reading a long letter from an old friend"
Reviewed by Patti Loveday
Posted April 6, 2018
Contemporary | Women's Fiction
TO BE WHERE YOU ARE by Jan Karon is the fourteenth book in the
Mitford Years series and is a
Christian contemporary
fiction novel. I have read the Mitford Years series for
several years and each book seems to outshine the previous
novel. You will fall in love with the people and the town as
you read a story about family, love, hardships, faith, hope,
and sacrifice. Karon has created a realistic town with people
that are so developed with detailed pasts and lifelike drama
or situations. The setting is that of a perfect watercolor
painted picture of a small Christian town where everybody knows
each other. Dooley and Lace have grown up throughout the series
and now have a child of their own. Father Tim and Cynthia are
two characters that seem to move around visiting all the other
characters from the previous novels. What a wonderful series
that is captivated and romantic. The story starts around the
time when the town is getting ready for all the tourists who
love looking at the leaves and ends right after Christmas
making this a great holiday read. You will fall in love with
this small little town and the people who call this place home.
As you read one trial after the next that Dooley and Lace's vet
practice encounters you will feel a wide range of emotions and
some all at once. The kind of trials or hardships where
everything that can go wrong does go wrong but throughout it
all the couple's faith will help them make the best of things
and overcome. A real feel good read and I cannot wait to read
the next book in this series.
SUMMARY
#1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon
returns with the fourteenth novel in the beloved Mitford
series, featuring three generations of Kavanaghs. After twelve years of wrestling with the conflicts of
retirement, Father Tim Kavanagh realizes he doesn't need a
steady job to prove himself. Then he's given one. As for
what it proves, heaven only knows. Millions of Karon fans will be thrilled that it’s life as
usual in the wildly popular Mitford series: A beloved town
character lands a front-page obituary, but who was it,
exactly, who died? And what about the former mayor, born the
year Lindbergh landed in Paris, who’s still running for
office? All this, of course, is but a feather on the wind
compared to Muse editor J.C. Hogan’s desperate
attempts to find a cure for his marital woes. Will it be
high-def TV or his pork chop marinade? In fiction, as in real life, there are no guarantees. Twenty minutes from Mitford at Meadowgate Farm, newlyweds
Dooley and Lace Kavanagh face a crisis that devastates their
bank account and impacts their family vet practice. But there is still a lot to celebrate, as their adopted son,
Jack, looks forward to the most important day of his
life—with great cooking, country music, and lots of people
who love him. Happily, it will also be a day when the
terrible wound in Dooley’s biological family begins to heal
because of a game—let’s just call it a miracle—that breaks
all the rules. In To Be Where You Are, Jan Karon weaves together the
richly comic and compelling lives of two Kavanagh families,
and a cast of characters that readers around the world now
love like kin.
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1 comment posted.
Re: A story that is like reading a long letter from an old friend
It,s Really Nice
(Candor International 12:02pm April 7, 2018)
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