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New York Times bestseller makes her William Morrow debut with a moving, southern story of the power of love and the miracles of life.
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New York Times bestseller Dorothea Benton Frank was born and raised on Sullivan's Island, South Carolina. She resides in the New York area with her husband and two children.
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Format:Mass Market Paperback
I like Dorothea Benton Frank, but this one missed its target by a mile. Heroine, estranged from loud and embarrassing Italian-American family, lives in Charleston with her boyfriend, to the horror of her family.Doctor boyfriend is into evil works, such as stem cell research. He also keeps an important secret from her, namely, that his mother is dying of Alzheimer's disease. He becomes ill but refuses for a long time to see a doctor. Eventually he is found to be suffering from incurable brain cancer...That's just the start of the book and it steadily gets sicklier from thereon. Unless you want a sugar overdose and highly suspect twists of the plot, I really wouldn't bother.
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29 of 32 people found the following review helpful
Full of Grace
19 July 2006
Format:Hardcover
We have Grace, who's family is Italian and devoted Catholics. Grace is living in a place that is paid for by her parents. However, she is living with a man, and they are not married. Michael let's just say has issues with church and believing. However when Michael is diagnosed with brain cancer everything changes.
Are miracles real? Should we have to give up science in order to follow what the church says? This book was an outstanding book. I loved the family life and I loved all the food descriptions and traveling.
This was my first book by Ms. Frank, but it won't be my last. It caught my attention and I couldn't put it down until I found out how Michael was if they were going to ever marry!
Are miracles real? Should we have to give up science in order to follow what the church says? This book was an outstanding book. I loved the family life and I loved all the food descriptions and traveling.
This was my first book by Ms. Frank, but it won't be my last. It caught my attention and I couldn't put it down until I found out how Michael was if they were going to ever marry!
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
4.5 stars
3 May 2006
Format:Hardcover
I stayed up all night just to finish this! It was well worth the baggy eyes I'll be suffering from tomorrow. The characters are fantastically flawed, the setting is gorgeous(only Frank does justice to coastal Carolina), and everyone can relate to the search for something to believe in. I won't write any more because I hate plot spoilers, but I know this story will haunt me for days. The only reason I rated it 4.5 stars is because I wasn't the vintage Dot I adore. Nonetheless, this is a book well worth reading. I can't wait until my book club members finish it so we can discuss this savory story over a bowl of she-crab soup.
26 of 31 people found the following review helpful
Mamma Mia! What Happened to Dot Frank?
25 May 2006
Format:Hardcover
A transfusion of Italian blood? A religious experience? Whatever it was, it works! She takes an unexpected, but totally endearing, turn from her normal writing to bring us this tale of transplanted Yankees who bring their traditions south with them.
Big Al and Connie leave New Jersey for retirement in Hilton Head. They lure their unmarried daughter Grace to join them by dangling a lovely carriage house in Charleston under her nose. Though Grace is basically ashamed of her parents and can't quite appreciate the warm and fuzzy family gatherings, she gladly accepts the house. Of course, her parents didn't expect her to live in sin with Michael, a character they consider on the fast track to hell due to his work in stem cell research. Michael is warm, Michael is brilliant, and before long Michael is diagnosed with brain cancer.
The book is filled with a lot of stereotypical Italian things which as a granddaughter of Italian immigrants I found misleading and atypical. However, the characters are what they are and I enjoyed sharing Thanksgiving, Christmas and Big Al's Birthday in their chaotic household. Sometimes, I wanted to shake Grace and make her less ashamed of her father or more accepting of her future sister-in-law, but on the whole I found this an interesting family to spend time with. The author hasn't lost her knack for utilizing local color. Because Grace is a travel agent, Ms. Frank is able to expand her descriptive abilities to include Sardinia as well as Mexico City. I had some problems with the too pat resolution of the story's major conflict, but hey . . . God works in mysterious ways.
Big Al and Connie leave New Jersey for retirement in Hilton Head. They lure their unmarried daughter Grace to join them by dangling a lovely carriage house in Charleston under her nose. Though Grace is basically ashamed of her parents and can't quite appreciate the warm and fuzzy family gatherings, she gladly accepts the house. Of course, her parents didn't expect her to live in sin with Michael, a character they consider on the fast track to hell due to his work in stem cell research. Michael is warm, Michael is brilliant, and before long Michael is diagnosed with brain cancer.
The book is filled with a lot of stereotypical Italian things which as a granddaughter of Italian immigrants I found misleading and atypical. However, the characters are what they are and I enjoyed sharing Thanksgiving, Christmas and Big Al's Birthday in their chaotic household. Sometimes, I wanted to shake Grace and make her less ashamed of her father or more accepting of her future sister-in-law, but on the whole I found this an interesting family to spend time with. The author hasn't lost her knack for utilizing local color. Because Grace is a travel agent, Ms. Frank is able to expand her descriptive abilities to include Sardinia as well as Mexico City. I had some problems with the too pat resolution of the story's major conflict, but hey . . . God works in mysterious ways.
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