![]() ![]() Or, if you just can’t wait – and who could blame you? – pick it up yourself. And that’s not even the end of the novel.ĭon’t look now, but the holidays are coming and “The Two Lives of Sara” could make a good gift. ![]() Slowly, though, as a painter creates a masterpiece, the other characters at West’s fictitious boarding house add layers of light and hue to Sara’s life, until the book seems to glow with happiness and a reader can breathe a sigh of relief.įollowed by a gasp, as we learn the truth about the child, what was left behind in Chicago, and two or three other things that plunge readers back into shadows and hushed conversation and a tale that turns simply devastating. Finding a warm welcome from Mama Sugar, the owner of the popular boardinghouse, she finds a segregated city with change on the horizon. There’s one big thing you need to know about “The Two Lives of Sara”: bring tissues.įrom the outset of her novel, author Catherine Adel West sets a flat tone, as if there is no color or depth to the life of her character, as if it’s forever cloudy and her days are empty. Taking place in 1960s Memphis, The Two Lives of Sarais about a woman with nothing but secrets and a baby in her belly who leaves Chicago to outrun her past. ![]()
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