When A Book For All Seasons asked me to recommend a book this month, I faced a dilemma.I have to pick one?The older I get the more I hate making a decision.But I thought about what a good book should do, and what I wanted from a book, and decided to recommend TRUE COLORS, by Kristin Hannah.Now I suppose I should tell you she is a close friend, and if you have read FIREFLY LANE, we are BFF. When I first read that expression can you call letters an expression? I was puzzled being older than twelve. Back in my youth letters were used for military, the Automobile Club and the NAACP.But in todays world of texting, BFF has become part of our vocabulary. So there you go BFF.
Kristin and I met twenty 23 years ago, both of us unpublished, me living in Northern California and she, in Washington.We met at small writers conference, a ****tail party to be exact, and found in each other true kindred spirits. (She will tell you it was because her husband pushed her into me.)But we have laughed about our chance meeting because we know it was our mothers directing from above.You see, we both lost our mothers young to breast cancer.
I was lucky enough to read TRUE COLORS in the late fall and it is quite the most wonderful novel.Kristin has a real knack for writing women's stories, and I particularly love her tales of sisters. Kristin almost always sets her books here in Washington state, so her characters live and love and triumph in a place we know well. I believe that makes the characters she writes about even more real to us.
The Grey sisters live on a horse farm near the Hood Canal, with their father, a hard-scrabble ranch man who is forced to raise three daughters who are left floundering when their mother dies. With time, the three sisters begin to grow apart and find themselves adrift in a swiftly changing world, where their mother had been the glue that held them close.Grown into young women, Winona, Aurora, and Vivi Ann still cling to a slim thread of sisterhood, despite their father's pattern of pitting one against another.But the final bond they have is stretched to the breaking point when love comes into their fragile lives, and with it, jealousy, betrayal, and lies.
TRUE COLORS is the perfect book for a rainy day, for your book group, and for your BFFs. You can even share it with your sister. Enjoy! Jill Barnett
I like some of the topics this book tackles head on. It is unflinching, but delicate and beautiful. Really keeps you turning the page. Thanks for recommending it, Jill!
