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A Slender Thread
A Slender Thread
A Slender Thread
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A Slender Thread

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Driven Apart by Their Past, Can the Bonds of Sisterhood Survive What Lies Ahead?



From the dramatic tradition of such classics as Little Women and A Thousand Acres comes Tracie Peterson's contemporary novel, A Slender Thread. Well-known for her Westward Chronicles series as well as her historical series with Judith Pella, Peterson now uses her agile storytelling skills to tackle a family saga about the bonds of sisterhood, which you will not want to miss.



United for the first time in years, five sisters return to their childhood in order to bid farewell to a mother they never knew, lost to the world that had made her a star. Knowing her only in her films, the sisters feel neither an emotional connection with her tragic death nor with each other. Only their deep love for their godly grandmother, Mattie, pulls them together.



In the wake of the funeral, the Mitchell sisters discover the impact of their absent mother on the choices they've made throughout their lives. A heartrending betrayal and a second tragedy threaten them further. Haunted by the past, unsure of the future, the sisters have only the example of Mattie and God's grace reaching through her lives to make them a family.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateMay 1, 2000
ISBN9781441203311
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Tracie Peterson

Tracie Peterson (TraciePeterson.com) is the bestselling author of more than one hundred novels, both historical and contemporary, with nearly six million copies sold. She has won the ACFW Lifetime Achievement Award and the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award. Her avid research resonates in her many bestselling series. Tracie and her family make their home in Montana.

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  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    This was a very dramatic book, maybe it was because I was hearing in with certain emphasis rather than reading my own thoughts into it, but this was a stressful book. There were several deaths throughout the book, and heart breaks, and lies, and betrayal. Almost everything that can go wrong did in one of the five sister's lives and then they had to struggle to go on. True it ends in a relative forgiveness, but rather abruptly when there were some 40-odd chapters of pure pain and torture. I love Tracie Peterson's work, but this is a book that I do not plan to ever read/listen to again. It is just too painful.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Like the rest of you, I did enjoy the book. The story moved along nicely, and the theme was very special - the pulling together of five sisters who had drifted apart (or in one case determined to separate herself) after leaving the farm where they were raised. I loved seeing how events pulled them back to God and the faith in which they were raised. The object used to illustrate the theme, a beautiful quilt made by the grandmother who raised the sisters, was an excellent device for this tale.I do have to say that the writing was not masterful. I had trouble from the beginning understanding the point of view of some sisters, and I don't think Brook was particularly well developed as a character. It detracted from the story for me, but it still earned a 7/10 for its uplifting story line.

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