Barefoot Alice
by Jan Porter
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Pub Date Mar 04 2021 | Archive Date Mar 25 2021
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Description
“Barefoot Alice” is a heart-warming tale of one woman’s journey of loves, lost and found, of discovering ancestral ties and the magical interconnection with life.
Dumped by her husband and homeless, middle aged Alice finds herself at the Rail Stop Café in a northern gold mining ghost town during a snowstorm.
Surrounded by wilderness and a strange community at Golden Lake, Alice finds shelter in a 200-year-old schoolhouse with its ethereal teacher and students. Facing the inevitability of a life alone, she unravels legacy secrets with the help of a kindly old man, the community around and a mysterious wilderness man. She encounters descendants of Dr. Barnardo’s British Home Children, gold rush fever, an unconsecrated baby burial, ghost hunting tourists and infringing upscale cottage estates.
Befriended by the old schoolhouse ghosts and community, Alice is challenged to survive and overcome a lonely life.
Alice’s heartwarming journey celebrates the life-affirming qualities of resilience, the importance of community; of this world and spirit world, and the power of love to change lives.
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| ISBN | 9798716233928 |
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Featured Reviews
Vicky S, Reviewer
Barefoot Alice is a woman rediscovering who she as a person after being ceremonially dumped by her husband of over 20 years. Along the way Alice ends up finding where her parents came from and about her grandparents.
Alice lived a very different life after her parents died. She lived a sheltered and lonely existence till she was older and married her husband who managed everything and when he left her then he basically left her with nothing.
Alice happened to fall into a community at Golden Lake and she had just enough funds for a down payment on a 200 year old schoolhouse. Alice was able to commune with the ghosts of the schoolhouse as several other people in the community.
The book is not your first impression of the title. Barefoot your thinking beach, but it does have some of that in the storyline. The book has a variety of characters and offshoots of storylines that blend in the story, but it does take you a little to tie it all together.
I received a free advanced copy from NetGalley and these are my willingly given thoughts and opinions.
Michelle B, Reviewer
I received this book as an ARC from NetGalley.
Alice is a woman who is having her world ripped apart. Her husband has filed for divorce, turned their home back over the bank to avoid forclosure, and has left her almost completely broke. Alice packs up her beat up pickup truck and leaves town. With no direction in mind, she starts driving and ends up in a really bad snowstorm. She pulls over for a meal and to pee at the Rail Stop Cafe. She gets stuck there overnight. At a loss for what to do going forward, homeless and alone, she decides to purchase a 200 year-old schoolhouse as a place to live.
As she cleans up the house, she learns more about the history of the town, her heritage and what it means to be part of a community. She also learns she is a lot stronger than she thinks she is.
The story is wonderfully written and paints a beautiful picture of the area. I really enjoyed this book, but the ending made me sob. I agree and disagree with the way the book ended.
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