The Stories We Carry

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A small-town bookstore owner finds herself at odds with a newcomer bent on disrupting her quiet life in this Southern women s fiction novel by award-winning author Robin W. Pearson. Glory Pryor has carved out a life for herself in Gilmore, North Carolina, cultivating a community around her bookstore, By the Book. While her business is a success, she carries the weight of stories of her own she s never told anyone. She holds out hope that one day her estranged brother will turn up on her doorstep so she can finally learn where he s been all these years. Glory s husband Eli thinks she has her arms wrapped too tightly around the could-have-beens, and that it s time for them to let go of the store as they head into their retirement years. Glory has different opinions on that she s not ready to give up the dream she s built just yet. Then Adelle Simonette shows up with her young son, Bennett, and Glory s carefully controlled life begins to crumble. Newly widowed Adelle Simonette is a single mother trying to find her footing and navigate parenting her young son. Lost in her grief, one thing she s certain of is that she needs to confront Glory Pryor and everybody who knows her because the woman s been living a lie. Adelle thinks it s high time Glory made things right. But Adelle s finding it hard to tell the truth . . . and there will be no going back once she does. In the wake of deeply personal grief and loss, two women reckon with a lifetime of silence and secrets to find a path forward toward healing, hope, and restoration. Contemporary women s fiction for fans of Denise Hunter, Vanessa Miller, Rachel Hauck, and Rhonda McKnight A small-town Southern saga that features bookish heroines and themes of family, forgiveness, and reconciliation Includes discussion questions for book clubs