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This is a book review tour hosted by Black Tide Book Tours. A copy of the book was provided in exchange for my honest review.
MY REVIEW:
This was a heart-warming story about family and the things that bring us together as well as create walls between us. Len is a young girl trying to understand who she is and who her father might be. As her mother provides very little insight on the man, Len takes it upon herself to seek out the answers she so desperately needs.
Len’s mother, Cora, has always been a free-spirited and open-minded woman who does her best to raise her child without the father around. But there are lots of secrets surrounding Cora and her family. While Len’s Aunt Jean has now found herself sitting in jail for the murder of her husband.
All three women have their own stories to tell and they weave together so beautifully in this story about family dynamics and growth. Growth for individuals and growth for family units as well. As everyone’s paths develop and converge, there is plenty to unravel and understand about each of these women.
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Three strong Southern women — twelve-year-old Len, her mother Cora, and her Aunt Jean — grapple with love and loss in this poignant tale set on a hardscrabble cattle ranch in a small Texas town. Len yearns to find the father who abandoned her, and after a chance encounter with a country music star who she suspects is him, she embarks on a life-altering journey to find the truth about her past. At the same time, Cora and Jean must deal with another shocking family betrayal that complicates everything. Told in turns by these three remarkable women, Abilene explores the boundaries of love and the transformative power of self-discovery.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dare DeLano
Dare DeLano writes both literary fiction for adults, and middle grade fiction.
Her debut novel Abilene will be released November 1, 2023, from Mint Hill Books, an imprint of Main Street Rag Publishing Company. It is available for pre-order here. Her work has been short-listed as a finalist for the Faulkner-Wisdom Creative Writing Competition. She is represented by Jennifer Thompson of Nordlyset Literary Agency.
Dare’s middle grade book Odus and the Long Way Home (The Odyssey) won both San Diego Book Award and the Gold Moonbeam Children’s Book Award in 2014. Dare holds an MFA in creative writing from Fairfield University. Her work has been published in “A Year in Ink Anthology, Vol. 10, San Diego Writers, Ink, and has been exhibited in the San Diego Central Library’s Local Author Exhibition.
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