Wow. What a read! I’m talking about the debut novel of Lynda
Rutledge, who some of you will know as Lynda Stephenson, the wife of publishing guru Don Stephenson. Lynda has written a deeply human novel, Faith Bass Darling’s Last Garage Sale.
Set in Lynda’s beloved Texas this book speaks lovingly and movingly to the
power of memory, family and place. Here is a taste of her writing from a
chapter in which Faith Bass Darling is struggling to remember, and not remember:
Just then, however, the elephant clock
perched on the porch steps struck the hour, and Faith turned toward it. And as
she watched its bronze-cast elephant’s trunk swaying with each chime, the
gilded clock began to slowly shimmer with memory and meaning until it was
absolutely aglow with Faith’s entire childhood, a childhood full of comforting
elephant clock nights. For a breath-snatching moment, Faith Bass Darling, here
eyes now locked on the old clock, experienced the comfort as fully as she had
as a child—clock ticking, elephant trunk swaying, rocking her gently, so very
gently, a soothing motherly tick-tock warmth lulling her to sleep. Then,
suddenly, she saw it rocking another child to sleep—her daughter—her
blond-haired little girl.
It is a novel full of life and
humor, a delight to read and share.
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