Genre: Literary Fiction
Description:
“Evvie Kerr has always been a caretaker—of her self-absorbed younger
sister Miriam; Miriam’s tender-hearted son Ben; and the sisters’ Russian-born
father Michael, a successful screenwriter who bears the scars of a traumatic
childhood. Evvie’s sudden diagnosis with the disease that killed her mother
forces each of the Kerrs to re-examine their roles in their lively, tightly
knit Jewish family, and beckons Evvie herself to stretch into a larger and
riskier life than she’d ever imagined. A family love story, Invisible
Threads explores the interwovenness of our individual fates with the
strivings and sufferings of our ancestors, celebrating the sweet and sometimes
disorienting grace of rebirth.”
Author:
“Sharon Heath writes fiction and non-fiction exploring the interplay
of science and spirit, politics and pop culture. A certified Jungian Analyst in
private practice and faculty member of the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles,
she served as Associate Editor of Psychological Perspectives and Guest Editor
of the special issue The Child Within/The Child Without. She has published in
Psychological Perspectives and Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche, and she has
blogged for HuffPost.”
Appraisal:
Just like real life, I wasn’t sure where this story was going to go.
In the process of finding out it caused a lot of thinking about family, both
good and bad, as I compared the Kerr family in the book to my own family. I contrasted
the things they were experiencing, both positive and not so great things, to my
life and that of others I have known. A good book exercises the mind and gets
the reader thinking and this story definitely did that.
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FYI:
Some mildly adult content.
Format/Typo
Issues:
No significant issues.
Rating: ****
Four Stars
Reviewed
by: BigAl
Approximate word count: 80-85,000 words
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