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    Far From the Tree
    Far From the Tree
    Far From the Tree
    Audiobook13 hours

    Far From the Tree

    Written by Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant

    Narrated by Fran L. Washington

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Celeste English and Ronnie Frazier are sisters, but they couldn't be more different. Celeste is a doctor's wife, living a perfect and elegant life. But secretly, she is terrified: her marriage is falling apart and her need to control the people around her threatens to alienate her entire family. And Celeste allows no one to see how vulnerable she really is. Ronnie is an actress, living in New York. Her life, however, is a lie: she has no money, has no home, and her life is held together by "chewing gum, paper clips, and spit," though she wants everyone to think that her life is one of high glamour and budding fame. When their father dies, the sisters inherit a house in Prosper, North Carolina. Their mother, Della, is adamant that they forget about going there and dredging up the past. Because Della has secrets she'd rather not see come to light-secrets and heartbreak she's kept from everyone for years. Neither Ronnie, Celeste, nor Della realize just what their trip to Prosper will uncover and they must discover for themselves who they really are, who they really love, and what the future holds for them. Far From The Tree is a novel that asks the questions: can the past ever truly remain hidden? Can mothers and daughters put aside their usual roles long enough to get to really know each other? Long enough to see they each have felt the love, loss, heartache and joy that they share as women. And can two strangers realize that they are, and always will be, sisters?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMay 16, 2017
    ISBN9781543611380
    Far From the Tree
    Author

    Virginia DeBerry

    Virginia DeBerry is a bestselling, award-winning author. With her co-writer Donna Grant, she is the author of Tryin’ to Sleep in the Bed You Made, which won the Merit Award for Fiction from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, as well as the 1998 Book of the Year Award from the Blackboard Bestseller List. They are also the authors of Far From the Tree and Better Than I Know Myself, both Essence bestsellers. A graduate of SUNY at Buffalo, Virginia worked for 10 years as a high school English teacher in Buffalo, before moving to New York to start a successful career as a plus size model. She met Donna while they were both working as models, and what should have been a rivalry ended up as a decades-long friendship. Virginia lives in New Jersey.

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    • 5/5
      Wonderful storyline on the dynamics between mother and daughters … Great read!
    • 5/5
      This book was an excellent escape for me. I was so submerged into another world, I didn't want it to end. Absolutely fantastic! Excellent story teller. The characters came alive with each chapter. It's a page turner, one I hope will be turned into a movie one day. I LOVED IT!!!! I have a new favourite author.
    • 5/5
      I thoroughly enjoyed the story of family and secrets unfolding.
    • 3/5
      The story line was okay but overall it did not keep my interest. The ending was too obvious. I prefer a twist.
    • 5/5
      Great book! Very well written and such great story lines!
    • 5/5
      Outstanding. Some real the emotions. I could relate to every character. Thank you! ????!
    • 5/5
      This story held my interest I didn’t want it to end .I felt like I was in Little Pond South Carolina.The ending was great closer to the past and hope for the future.
    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed this story. I had a hard time stopping once I started because it was just that good.
    • 5/5
      This is the longest review I've written in a while. Far from the Tree kept me company and kept me engaged. The story moves from a southern country living to urban living and back. The story made me wish for a place in the country of my own. Most of the characters were well developed and realistic. The narrator did an adequate job, although her southern accents were a bit overdone. The best thing I can say about this novel is that I wanted it to last longer.
    • 5/5
      Truly well written and inspiring. The authors captured the reader at first sentence.
    • 3/5
      I didn't enjoy this one a lot. it's a family history of a black family in the States, very defunct. The protagonists are draining. I assume they fel like real people, but the novel lacks warmth. it does portray very accurately the complex hate-relationship in families, and how people hide their own past from those nearest (and presumably dearest) to them. It got better in the second half, but the first half dragged a lot.
    • 5/5
      Follows "Tryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made". Another wonderful read by these two best women friends.
    • 3/5
      I didn't enjoy this one a lot. it's a family history of a black family in the States, very defunct. The protagonists are draining. I assume they fel like real people, but the novel lacks warmth. it does portray very accurately the complex hate-relationship in families, and how people hide their own past from those nearest (and presumably dearest) to them. It got better in the second half, but the first half dragged a lot.