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Title details for How the Light Gets In by Jolina Petersheim - Available

How the Light Gets In

by Jolina Petersheim
Tavia Gilbert
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From the highly acclaimed author of The Outcast and The Alliance comes an engrossing novel about marriage and motherhood, loss and moving on.
When Ruth Neufeld's husband and father-in-law are killed working for a relief organization overseas, she travels to Wisconsin with her young daughters and mother-in-law Mabel to bury her husband. She hopes the Mennonite community will be a quiet place to grieve and piece together next steps.
Ruth and her family are welcomed by Elam, her husband's cousin, who invites them to stay at his cranberry farm through the harvest. Sifting through fields of berries and memories of a marriage that was broken long before her husband died, Ruth finds solace in the beauty of the land and healing through hard work and budding friendship. She also encounters the possibility of new love with Elam, whose gentle encouragement awakens hopes and dreams she thought she'd lost forever.
But an unexpected twist threatens to unseat the happy ending Ruth is about to write for herself. On the precipice of a fresh start and a new marriage, Ruth must make an impossible decision: which path to choose if her husband isn't dead after all.

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    March 5, 2019

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781621889311
      • File size: 297374 KB
      • Duration: 10:19:31

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Skilled narrator Tavia Gilbert provides a compelling performance as young widow Ruth Neufeld. After Chandler Neufeld and his father are killed in a bombing in war-torn Afghanistan, Ruth is left to pick up the pieces of her life and the lives of her two daughters. She retreats to Chandler's Mennonite family's farm to find solace. What first appears to be the story of a simple Mennonite romance between a widow and her late husband's cousin becomes a complicated journey through a woman's impossible dilemma. Primarily using varied accents, Gilbert strongly differentiates each character in this emotional audiobook. V.B. 2020 Audies Finalist © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine

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