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Hurt, hurt bad, and goners. 😢

Just couldn’t get into it, so returned it.

LOVING this book so far. Listening to the audiobook and the narrator is excellent. She really captures the Kentucky hill accent.

P 143: From Him we are and to Him we return. A phrase recited in Arabic when hearing of someone’s death. Surely there is evidence for the line present in all aspects of life, not just in the face of death. This house, this table, this teacup she sips from, who is to say it one day it might not all be taken? Our children are not our own as our lives are not our own. All are a loan from God, His temporary gift.

“She pictured a dark sky with the fog in front of it, how her mother had once explained it to her: we don’t have to see past the fog to know that there are stars.”

I’m abandoning this.