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"In this unforgettable debut novel, twenty-seven-year-old Tessa, pregnant with her third child and living in a trailer on her mother-in-law's property, encounters the woman she used to love--leading Tessa to question the very foundations of the life she's built. Abandoned by first her father and then her mother, as a girl Tessa is left to live with her abusive stepfather and stepbrother. She survives by finding reserves of strength in herself, and by the surprising, transformative love of another teenage girl, Mel, who sees through Tessa's tough exterior to the vulnerable, scarred, loving woman inside. When she suddenly loses Mel, too, Tessa stumbles into a saving grace of a different kind with Henry and his mama, Angie, becoming a mother and finding herself in a familial existence that somehow carries her into adulthood--until the day she runs into Mel, who has just returned to Perris after years away. Filled with violence, tragedy, tenderness, longing, and the unvarnished courage of women living in a mostly unseen America, Perris, California is the utterly gripping story of Tessa's journey from trauma to healing, and it introduces us to one of the most indelible female characters since Bone Boatwright in Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina or Ruth Langmore in Ozark"--… (meer)
Strong debut novel. Characters that earn respect from the reader and demand it from one another. Resist the urge to label this a "romance" - it's about love at its most difficult and redemptive. ( )
This book has been my number one read so far this year and I honestly don't know what to say that will not ruin this book when you read it, but this book had destroyed me and put me back together in the best way. This is Fiction with a capital F and a book that is lingering in my mind since I finished last week. I am still sadly smiling and processing this book and yes, even still getting teary eyed over this today. I love that Henry and Angie and Tessa are always themselves as a caregivers and protectors, that they try to live their lives authentically and honor that connection to family in the face of all life throws at them. Not to be coy, but they are Love...yes another capital which really says something about how Stark wrote this boom. They are the ones who accept, support, and are present for all the people in their lives and they have all stolen different parts of my heart because of it. I know this is sounds awkward, but this book showcases so many aspects, types, and levels of Love that it reminds me from page one to how hard and heartbreaking, how precious and unique, how heart healing and soul empowering Love is and how fierce we have to be in the of protection Love.
If reading great, albeit heavy, literature empowers you to face Life and you are willing to look into the face of life's darkness to discover the power and beauty of the Human Heart, you have to check this book out! ( )
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It was sometime in the middle of the night when Angie woke to a sharp pain in her chest. She put a hand there. She was waiting to see if it would pass when she heard a tapping on her bedroom window. She moved hand from her chest and shook Buck's shoulder. The tapping got louder. "Buck," Angie whispered. "Buck, wake up.: -Prologue: 1992, Angie
Wayne's place was a two-mile straight shot from their ranch as the crow flew, but with the way the first roads rook them, it was usually about a fifteen-minute ride. That night, Buck him and his boys there in seven. Thanking about what Angie had told him made his foot heavy. -Buck
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There was just the simple act of living, of finding those to love during the short and precious time you had on earth. That was the whole heaven and hell of it.
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Angie kept her legs walking and let the weight of the baby in her arms ground her heart inside her chest, where, for at least a little while longer, it was meant to be. -Chapter Ten, 1999, Angie
Tessa opened her eyes and felt at her center the bittersweetness of parting with a dear friend. She would let the memory of that wind on the hill carry her home to her family instead. -Epilogue, 1999, Tessa
"In this unforgettable debut novel, twenty-seven-year-old Tessa, pregnant with her third child and living in a trailer on her mother-in-law's property, encounters the woman she used to love--leading Tessa to question the very foundations of the life she's built. Abandoned by first her father and then her mother, as a girl Tessa is left to live with her abusive stepfather and stepbrother. She survives by finding reserves of strength in herself, and by the surprising, transformative love of another teenage girl, Mel, who sees through Tessa's tough exterior to the vulnerable, scarred, loving woman inside. When she suddenly loses Mel, too, Tessa stumbles into a saving grace of a different kind with Henry and his mama, Angie, becoming a mother and finding herself in a familial existence that somehow carries her into adulthood--until the day she runs into Mel, who has just returned to Perris after years away. Filled with violence, tragedy, tenderness, longing, and the unvarnished courage of women living in a mostly unseen America, Perris, California is the utterly gripping story of Tessa's journey from trauma to healing, and it introduces us to one of the most indelible female characters since Bone Boatwright in Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina or Ruth Langmore in Ozark"--
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