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Daughter Am I
Daughter Am I
Daughter Am I
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Daughter Am I

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When twenty-five-year-old Mary Stuart learns she inherited a farm from her recently murdered grandparents -- grandparents her father claimed had died before she was born -- she becomes obsessed with finding out who they were and why someone wanted them dead.

"A delightful treasure hunting tale of finding oneself in a most unlikely way." --Publisher's Weekly

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PublisherPat Bertram
Release dateOct 14, 2009
ISBN9781935171195
Daughter Am I
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Pat Bertram

Pat Bertram is the author of the suspense novels LIGHT BRINGER, DAUGHTER AM I, MORE DEATHS THAN ONE, and A SPARK OF HEAVENLY FIRE. Bertram is also the author of GRIEF: THE GREAT YEARNING, "an exquisite book, wrenching to read, and at the same time full of profound truths."

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    This was an awesome book. At age 23 Mary Stuart finds out that she has inherited a farm from her grandparents. Her father had told her that her grandparents were dead, so the inheritance is a shock but when she finds out that her grandparents were murdered she determines that she needs to know more about them. Thus, Mary sets off on a quest in which she collects an amazing array of elderly people, all of whom knew her grandfather or knew someone who knew him.

    This is a tale of growing. Mary is growing up, the elderly are growing older, and love is growing between Mary and all of her group. There are some marvelous life stories here, the elders have all lead amazing lives most not on the "right" side of the law. The most important lesson is that it is so important to allow the elderly to live and die with dignity. Mary manages to learn this in time to help this group and she also learns that they will live longer if they feel useful.

    All in all, an amazing story and I'm so glad that someone on DorothyL recommended this book. It blew me away from beginning to end.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    Teach teaches, Crunchy crunches, or would if he weren’t getting too old, and other assorted folk of increasing years join up for the ride. I love the way the author collects her characters in Daughter am I, each interacting for just long enough to establish recognizable voice before the search moves on. The stories in this novel roll with the wheels of the bus, round and round through the tortuous history of Midwestern mobs, to the mystery of Mary’s grandparents’ demise… and on to a sort of grown-up Secret Seven treasure hunt, with all its curious side-journeys, dangerous foes, missing gold and mixed-up relationships.Pat Bertram is a recently published author, and this is her third novel (already!). She’s published with a small publisher called Second Wind, and if you haven’t heard of her, or them, you might want to jump on the bandwagon now before Pat gets famous. She has a distinctive writing style, with good old-fashioned plots that drive forwards on the innocent enthusiasm of youth, and with characters that straightforwardly narrate their tales. But the stories Pat tells are thoroughly modern too, with up-to-date scientific and historical research, complex scenarios, and hints of next year’s secrets and the next decade’s headlines. Her characters are wonderful and flawed, old enough to have those tales to tell, and lively enough to have tales to build as well.In this book I learned why the Syndicate’s not the Mafia, how to read a serial number that’s been filed off a gun, and how many people die per second in the United States. I learned about time and politics and attitudes, and even a bit about myself. There’s gold in these pages, a gold standard you can really believe in, and treasure in the “elders” who seek it. Don’t miss this book; don’t avoid it just because you can’t guess the genre. It’s whatever you’re looking for, and truly, while some of the characters may have been con-artists, that’s not a con.

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