S.R. Mallery
Paperback | Pages: 382 pages Rating: 3.94 | 232 Users | 65 Reviews
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| ISBN: | 0988954206 (ISBN13: 9780988954205) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Can we learn from our ancestral past? Do our relatives behaviors help mold our own? In Unexpected Gifts, that is precisely what happens to Sonia, a confused college student, heading for addictions and forever choosing the wrong man. Searching for answers, she begins to read her family s diaries and journals from America s past: the Vietnam War, Woodstock, and Timothy Leary era; Tupperware parties, McCarthyism, and Black Power; the Great Depression, dance marathons, and Eleanor Roosevelt; the immigrant experience and the Suffragists. Back and forth the book journeys, linking yesteryear with modern life until finally, by understanding her ancestors' hardships and faults, she gains enough clarity to make some right choices.List Containing Books Unexpected Gifts
| Title | : | Unexpected Gifts |
| Author | : | S.R. Mallery |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 382 pages |
| Published | : | April 16th 2013 by Mockingbird Lane Press (first published April 1st 2013) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction |
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Ratings: 3.94 From 232 Users | 65 ReviewsCommentary Containing Books Unexpected Gifts
Exhilarating storytelling that makes history come alive.Oh my. After finishing this book I feel like I've gone around the world. In a time capsule. Once again, Mallery unfolds her talent with masterful storytelling that makes history come alive. Soldiers fighting the Vietnam War, hippies in Woodstock, suffragettes, emigrants arriving on Ellis island and so much more come to life in this compelling family saga, making it a spell-binding treat you will never forget.I have read all of Mallery'sUnexpected Gifts by S. R. Mallery is for anyone who has ever wondered what their parents, grandparents, and other ancestors were like when they were young. It is for anyone who wonders how life has changed over several decades. Sonia, the main character, goes up in the attic to find old diaries, photograph albums, and newspaper clippings about her parents. How did they meet, what was New York City like in the 1960s, what was her father like before and after he went to Vietnam, and what was it
http://www.njkinnysblog.com/2015/08/u...Rating: 4.5 out of 5 starsUnexpected Gifts by SR Mallery is truly an unexpected gift to readers. A realistic and emotionally rich story that took me back to the times I had only read about in my history lessons in school, this story took me inside and made me feel a part of that era.When I heard about the book, the first thing that appealed to me was the title that is intriguing and had me checking out the blurb which had me reading the book. Interesting
S.R. Mallery (no relation) has written a fascinating novel about Sonia, a young woman struggling to break the cycle of bad choices that have run in her family. As a college psychology student, Sonia is actively involved in her psych study group where she explores her OCD behavior and where her study partner, Harry, frequently causes her to examine her relationship with her erratic and neglectful boyfriend. Sonia's boyfriend is the front-man in a rising rock band, and the band's growth in
Exhilarating storytelling that makes history come alive.Oh my. After finishing this book I feel like I've gone around the world. In a time capsule. Once again, Mallery unfolds her talent with masterful storytelling that makes history come alive. Soldiers fighting the Vietnam War, hippies in Woodstock, suffragettes, emigrants arriving on Ellis island and so much more come to life in this compelling family saga, making it a spell-binding treat you will never forget.I have read all of Mallery's
Unexpected Gifts by S.R. Mallery lives up to its name. And the wrapping on that gift peels off layer after layer until the final beautiful gift reveals itself.The book takes the reader on a journey through one young woman's legacy left by her ancestors. Sonia feels adrift in her life as she continues her relationship with an up and coming rock star and pursues her degree in psychology.Starting with her parents' lives in the 1960s, she goes back through the years of the twentieth century as she
In this moving novel, S.R. Mallery takes us from one historic event to another, weaving a family's history with American history and teaching us and the main character some valuable lessons along the way. From Ellis Island to the Great Depression, Eleanor Roosevelt, civil rights, Vietnam, Woodstock, to present day, Mallery gives us a fascinating, intimate look at these events, as seen through the eyes of her characters. The book left me wishing my ancestors had left diaries and letters that
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