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Cry Before Supper
In January 1961, the Campbell family moves from their Philadelphia row home to a larger house in a suburb where they believe they will have a better life. The parents, devoted grandmother and five children start each day with a song. Bonded by their happiness, they protect the one child who suffers from a neurological condition that marks him as different.
Then, in one swift stroke, the family’s joy is shattered. A town local, long embittered by his lot in life, whom the Campbells help in his dire time of need, becomes mired in his own bitterness, greed, and jealousy. He inflicts irrevocable harm upon them.
Struck hard by this tragedy none of them can fathom, each of the Campbells reacts in an uncharacteristic way. Their closeness is extinguished. Their future bleak.
Except for that one ray of hope. The middle child, Annie, the one with the least confidence, has patience. Her endurance and willingness to provide for others makes all the difference. Her account of what happened defines the power of perseverance.
This story will envelop you with its rapture, its uncertainty, its secrets, and escort you through its darkness. In bold defiance of the odds, the Campbells can find light once again. This is a sweeping tale that is irresistible and hard to put down.
Then, in one swift stroke, the family’s joy is shattered. A town local, long embittered by his lot in life, whom the Campbells help in his dire time of need, becomes mired in his own bitterness, greed, and jealousy. He inflicts irrevocable harm upon them.
Struck hard by this tragedy none of them can fathom, each of the Campbells reacts in an uncharacteristic way. Their closeness is extinguished. Their future bleak.
Except for that one ray of hope. The middle child, Annie, the one with the least confidence, has patience. Her endurance and willingness to provide for others makes all the difference. Her account of what happened defines the power of perseverance.
This story will envelop you with its rapture, its uncertainty, its secrets, and escort you through its darkness. In bold defiance of the odds, the Campbells can find light once again. This is a sweeping tale that is irresistible and hard to put down.
251 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2012
About the author
Julia Rose Grey
9 books15 followersJulia Rose Grey was born round in the squared-off world of strict, austere parents in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1949. As her parents explained to her, she was the odd child, the one who was different.
It wasn’t until high school that Ms. Grey learned to embrace her roundness. A nice lady administering a psychological test told her that her slanted writing indicated resilience and independence. When she wrote a parody of Poe’s “The Raven,” in which she expressed her loathing of doing homework “evermore,” her teacher praised her witty twist. From then on, Ms. Grey developed her preference for listening to her own drummer’s beat rather than conforming.
Her fondest memories are of those of her late teenage years. Both her maternal and paternal grandmothers lived with Ms. Grey’s family in a rambling stone house in the Philadelphia suburbs, and Ms. Grey would often sit with one or the other grandmother and soak in their stories and wisdom. She learned to develop her imagination and a fondness of all things vintage.
After graduating from college, she accepted a position as a technical editor in an employee-owned company whose business included government contracts for military tactics and analysis. Ms. Grey learned to code software, to use hardware to optimize connectivity, and to negotiate business contracts. Over the years, she developed her skills and emerged as a program manager in the field of military communications.
Now retired, she wakes each morning eager to write fiction. Her novels include Cry Before Supper, a story of perseverance which has been compared to Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, and a holiday tale of whimsy, The Dream Catcher. Readers have praised her writing as fun, human, and alive.
She fills her days with joy and lives peacefully with her husband of thirty-some years in Exton, Pennsylvania.
It wasn’t until high school that Ms. Grey learned to embrace her roundness. A nice lady administering a psychological test told her that her slanted writing indicated resilience and independence. When she wrote a parody of Poe’s “The Raven,” in which she expressed her loathing of doing homework “evermore,” her teacher praised her witty twist. From then on, Ms. Grey developed her preference for listening to her own drummer’s beat rather than conforming.
Her fondest memories are of those of her late teenage years. Both her maternal and paternal grandmothers lived with Ms. Grey’s family in a rambling stone house in the Philadelphia suburbs, and Ms. Grey would often sit with one or the other grandmother and soak in their stories and wisdom. She learned to develop her imagination and a fondness of all things vintage.
After graduating from college, she accepted a position as a technical editor in an employee-owned company whose business included government contracts for military tactics and analysis. Ms. Grey learned to code software, to use hardware to optimize connectivity, and to negotiate business contracts. Over the years, she developed her skills and emerged as a program manager in the field of military communications.
Now retired, she wakes each morning eager to write fiction. Her novels include Cry Before Supper, a story of perseverance which has been compared to Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, and a holiday tale of whimsy, The Dream Catcher. Readers have praised her writing as fun, human, and alive.
She fills her days with joy and lives peacefully with her husband of thirty-some years in Exton, Pennsylvania.
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