Visiting The Sins
by Melanie Denman
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Pub Date 01 Jan 2015 | Archive Date 21 Feb 2015
Description
In her riotous debut novel, Melanie Denman probes the silent sacrifices
of motherhood with unflinching honesty and warmhearted amusement. Set in
the Bible Belt of Deep East Texas, Visiting the Sins is a darkly funny
story about mothers and daughters, naked ambition, elusive redemption,
and all the torment it's possible to inflict in the name of family.
Down through the decades, the lofty social aspirations of the feisty
but perennially dissatisfied Wheeler women - Pokey, the love-starved,
pistol-packing matriarch; Rebanelle, the frosty former beauty queen
turned church organist; and Curtis Jean, the backsliding gospel singer -
are exceeded only by their unfortunate taste in men and a seemingly
boundless capacity for holding grudges. A legacy of feuding and scandal
lurches from one generation to the next with tragic consequences that
threaten to destroy everything the Wheeler women have sacrificed their
souls to build.
Advance Praise
“Melanie Denman comes from a long and celebrated tradition of [S]outhern
writers combining pathos and humor with glorious results. Her
characters–the women in particular–are marvelous: irreverent, scandalous
and unapologetically themselves. Her language is as fresh and original
as they are, and she uses a wonderfully unconventional structure to
create this multi-generational family saga… has you laughing and crying,
sometimes within the very same scene…”
Malena Watrous — If You Follow Me
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781633850446 |
| PRICE | $3.99 (USD) |
