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Here’s Book #3: THE LAST LETTER by Kathleen Shoop.
ABOUT THE LAST LETTER
For any daughter who thinks she knows her mother’s story…
Katherine Arthur’s mother arrives on her doorstep, dying, forcing her to relive a past she wanted to forget. When Katherine was young, the Arthur family had been affluent city dwellers until shame sent them running for the prairie, into the unknown. Taking her family, including young Katherine, to live off the land was the last thing Jeanie Arthur had wanted, but she did her best to make a go of it on a domain of natural disasters, temptation, hatred, even death.
Ten-year-old Katherine had loved her mother fiercely, put her trust in her completely, but when there was no other choice, and Jeanie resorted to extreme measures on the prairie to save her family, she tore Katherine’s world apart. Now, seventeen years later, and far from the prairie, Katherine has found the truth – she has discovered the last letter.
Here is author Kathie Shoop to introduce the book:
Here is this week’s contest, which will be open now until July 1st:
THE LAST LETTER is based on real letters between Kathie Shoop’s great-grandparents courting one another before they were married. Leave a comment here on the blog or on our Facebook page telling us how your parents or grandparents met (For example, Crystal says her grandparents met on a blind date at a carnival when they were 14 and 16 years old!) We’ll randomly chose one winner of the Philosophy Cocktail Beauty Kit tomorrow (6/1)
My grandparents met in Brooklyn, NY at a hospital where my grandma was a nurse and my grandfather was a police officer. Love at first site 🙂
So sweet! Funny, my grandparents met in “Brooklyn” too – a small town in Indiana! At a 4th of July carnival.
So sweet! Funny, my grandparents met in “Brooklyn” too – a small town in Indiana! At a 4th of July carnival.
So sweet! Funny, my grandparents met in “Brooklyn” too – a small town in Indiana! At a 4th of July carnival.
I wish I knew the story of how my grandparents met. I will have to ask my uncle as he is the only link left on my mom’s side and my dad.
I loved this book. This is the kind of story that stays with you and pops into your mind often. The characters are so strong and endearing. I found the inspriation for the book very interesting and what a blessing of family history to have those letters. What a gift to share with all of us.