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    The World Outside Our Door
    The World Outside Our Door
    The World Outside Our Door
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    The World Outside Our Door

    By Elizabeth Hawkins

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    It has been five days since her father’s death, and Liz still feels frozen in time. Left with twenty-one years of memories, Liz knows that John Frederick Smith was not a perfect man or father. She loved her father, but his drinking had always been a source of resentment. As she attempts to grapple with her grief and anger, Liz returns to her memories with the hope of finding the answers she so desperately needs.

    Sixty-nine years earlier, little Fred Smith is born out-of-wedlock in the small town of Southport, North Carolina. As his life’s journey leads him from Southport to Virginia and then into the military, he eventually marries and starts a family. Still, he cannot escape the cloud of shame and rejection that secretly haunts him, sending his life in a downward trajectory that ultimately affects the lives of his children and grandchildren and leaves him wondering if he will ever find the inner-peace he craves.

    In this poignant novel, the past intertwines with the present as an illegitimate child born during the early 1900s embarks on a dark journey fueled by a secret that creates generational challenges.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchway Publishing
    Release dateJul 25, 2017
    ISBN9781480848900
    The World Outside Our Door
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    Elizabeth Hawkins

    Elizabeth Hawkins is an author and blogger who earned a bachelor’s degree in communications from Trinity Washington University in 2017. She is the author of the book From Pigtails and Pinafores, and blogs weekly about the long-term effects of growing up a child of an alcoholic. Liz currently resides in Prince George’s County, Maryland.

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