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Readers received a refreshing introduction to the Sims and Catts families in Owens' first novel, My Brother Michael, narrated by the inimitable Gabriel Catts. Here to tell her side is Myra Sims, the apex of a love triangle that includes Gabe and his brother, Michael. Myra's fresh perspective will bring new insight to a story of incest, adultery, and hard-won love among the denizens of Magnolia Hill, a Florida Panhandle mill town. We follow Myra from her violent childhood and entrancement with Gabe's snap-eyed genius, through her marriage to the older and more stable Michael, to her breakdown and renewal as she battles the demons from her childhood that haunt all three of them. In the end, you will, as both Gabe and Myra do, love Michael.… (meer)
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For the good ole girls: Mama and Katie B, Carole and Helen, Pat, Shari, Suzy, Joy, and Marcie, and the little ones: Mimi and Abby and Sweet 'Bel who've all taught me a thing or two, mostly about love. I couldn't imagine my life without you.
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On the day my husband Michael died, I was too busy with the practical details of death, the funeral arrangement, the notifying of relatives, the soothing of the tears and near-hysteria in my children, to take much time out to grieve myself.
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That from the very first night, when he'd driven across the flat woods to retrieve me and stopped dead still on the highway so I could wish on a star, he did me the most incredible favor of all: he lifted my head. My husband Michael.
Readers received a refreshing introduction to the Sims and Catts families in Owens' first novel, My Brother Michael, narrated by the inimitable Gabriel Catts. Here to tell her side is Myra Sims, the apex of a love triangle that includes Gabe and his brother, Michael. Myra's fresh perspective will bring new insight to a story of incest, adultery, and hard-won love among the denizens of Magnolia Hill, a Florida Panhandle mill town. We follow Myra from her violent childhood and entrancement with Gabe's snap-eyed genius, through her marriage to the older and more stable Michael, to her breakdown and renewal as she battles the demons from her childhood that haunt all three of them. In the end, you will, as both Gabe and Myra do, love Michael.