True places : a novel /
Yoerg, Sonja Ingrid, 1959-,
True places : a novel / Sonja Yoerg. - First edition. - 347 pages ; 21 cm.
A girl emerges from the woods, starved, ill, and alone ... and collapses. Suzanne Blakemore hurtles along the Blue Ridge Parkway, away from her overscheduled and completely normal life, and encounters the girl. As Suzanne rushes her to the hospital, she never imagines how the encounter will change her-a change she both fears and desperately needs. Suzanne has the perfect house, a successful husband, and a thriving family. But beneath the veneer of an ideal life, her daughter is rebelling, her son is withdrawing, her husband is oblivious to it all, and Suzanne is increasingly unsure of her place in the world. After her discovery of the ethereal sixteen-year-old who has never experienced civilization, Suzanne is compelled to invite Iris into her family's life and all its apparent privileges. But Iris has an independence, a love of solitude, and a discomfort with materialism that contrasts with everything the Blakemores stand for-qualities that awaken in Suzanne first a fascination, then a longing. Now Suzanne can't help but wonder: Is she destined to save Iris, or is Iris the one who will save her?
9781503904552 1503904555 9781503904781 1503904784
GBB8K2375 bnb
019115313 Uk
Married women--Fiction.
Mothers--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.
Teenage girls--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.
Self-actualization (Psychology)--Fiction.
Blue Ridge Parkway (N.C. and Va.)--Fiction.
Virginia--Fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction).
Domestic fiction.
PS3625.O37 / T78 2019
813/.6
True places : a novel / Sonja Yoerg. - First edition. - 347 pages ; 21 cm.
A girl emerges from the woods, starved, ill, and alone ... and collapses. Suzanne Blakemore hurtles along the Blue Ridge Parkway, away from her overscheduled and completely normal life, and encounters the girl. As Suzanne rushes her to the hospital, she never imagines how the encounter will change her-a change she both fears and desperately needs. Suzanne has the perfect house, a successful husband, and a thriving family. But beneath the veneer of an ideal life, her daughter is rebelling, her son is withdrawing, her husband is oblivious to it all, and Suzanne is increasingly unsure of her place in the world. After her discovery of the ethereal sixteen-year-old who has never experienced civilization, Suzanne is compelled to invite Iris into her family's life and all its apparent privileges. But Iris has an independence, a love of solitude, and a discomfort with materialism that contrasts with everything the Blakemores stand for-qualities that awaken in Suzanne first a fascination, then a longing. Now Suzanne can't help but wonder: Is she destined to save Iris, or is Iris the one who will save her?
9781503904552 1503904555 9781503904781 1503904784
GBB8K2375 bnb
019115313 Uk
Married women--Fiction.
Mothers--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.
Teenage girls--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.
Self-actualization (Psychology)--Fiction.
Blue Ridge Parkway (N.C. and Va.)--Fiction.
Virginia--Fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction).
Domestic fiction.
PS3625.O37 / T78 2019
813/.6