A Soft Place to Land
Susan Rebecca White
For more than ten years Naomi and Phil Harrison enjoyed a marriage of heady romance, tempered only by the needs of their young children. But on a vacation alone together, the couple perishes in a flight over the Grand Canyon, leaving the family shattered. After the funeral, their daughters, Ruthie and Julia, are shocked by the provisions in their will.
Spanning nearly two decades, the sisters’ journeys take them from their familiar home in Atlanta to the sophisticated bohemian culture of San Francisco, a mountain town in Virginia, the campus of Berkeley, and the lofts of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. As they heal from loss, search for love, and begin careers, their sisterhood, once an oasis, becomes complicated by resentment, anger, and jealousy. It seems as though the echoes of their parents’ deaths will never stop reverberating--until another shocking accident changes everything once again.
“A Soft Place to Land is a beautiful story of the complicated love between two sisters. It’s smart, funny, moving, and wise. I simply didn’t want to put it down. If you have a sister, you’re going to miss her, and if you don’t have one, you’ll wish that you did. Book clubs: This is your next pick. I loved this book. Susan Rebecca White is a wonderful writer.”
--Kathryn Stockett, author of The Help
"Susan Rebecca White is a true original. She whacks through stereotypes with a machete, ultimately rejecting them all, and finding instead deep compassion for the flaws that make us human. This journey of two sisters' loss and longing is sure to win your heart.”
--Todd Johnson, author of The Sweet By and By
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Bound South
Susan Rebecca White
Fresh and feisty, Bound South will charm readers with its deft exploration of the daily clash between old-fashioned Atlanta traditions and twenty-first century reality.
Louise Parker, a proper Southern matron, secretly longs to escape her role as the picture-perfect family woman. Her rebellious teen daughter, Caroline, also seeks a new role—the lead in the school play— but Caroline’s handsome high school drama teacher wants her as his own private ingénue. Meanwhile, part-time housekeeper Missy focuses less on polishing the Parkers' silver and more on polishing the soul of Louise’s irreverent son; that is until he inadvertently leads Missy to the father who deserted her family years ago.
Accompanied by a cast of deeply eccentric characters, three women embark on distinctly different but ultimately connected journeys to find themselves and their places in the New South.
“White's wit and graceful prose yield sharp insights about family, friendship and faith in the ever-changing South…A wonderful debut.”
--Publishers Weekly
"Move over, Margaret Mitchell----and Tom Wolfe, too! Nobody has ever written about Atlanta with such insight and humor----and she gets it all right, right down to those famous crackers at the Driving Club. With characteristic brio, White fearlessly tackles complex issues of class, race, gender, money, and the dark side of family life----all those things Southerners are never supposed to talk about. And what characters! I feel like I have known these people all my life, yet I'm still stunned by the richness and complexity of these charracterizations, not a stereotype among them."
--Lee Smith, author of the New York Times bestseller The Last Girls and on Agate Hill
“From Chapter One, you are in the unsentimental, annoying, and enormously funny New South. Susan Rebecca White has perfect pitch and a wicked pen.”
--Anne Rivers Siddons, New York Times bestselling author of Off Season and Peachtree Road
“Susan Rebecca White has written a wonderful novel of women, friendship, and serious longing for a father's love. Reading it made me miss my father, want to call my best friend, and need to stay up all night till I’d read the last page. Bound South is a southern novel that really touched this northern heart.”
--Luanne Rice, New York Times bestselling author of What Matters Most and Sandcastles
"I was enthralled by this book. The story depicts the clash between the Old South and the New as played out in the lives of characters that are sympathetically and realistically drawn. In fact, I think I know some of the characters.”
-- Ann B. Ross, author of Miss Julia Tells All
"Susan Rebecca White places her characters in Margaret Mitchell territory, arms them with cell phones and graces them with the ability to change. The South may, indeed, rise again. Bound South tells us that might not be such a bad thing."
--Ann Goethe, author of Midnight Lemonade
"Here is the modern South in all it's trumped up glory, hypocrisy, genuine kindness, and class consciousness; and here is a young woman's tumultuous and compelling journey from red state customs to blue. Susan Rebecca White has a keen sense for how her characters talk and think. An impressive debut."
--Tom Barbash, author of The Last Good Chance
“Bound South, Susan Rebecca White's debut novel, is a moving and absorbing read. White has an exceptional eye for the telling detail in both character and description. The main character, a young girl named Missy, is unforgettable, rendered in language that is both spare and full of a graceful economy. I can't recommend the book too highly.”
--Wayne Johnston, author of The Custodian of Paradise
"For a Californian like me, who's never been to the South, reading Susan Rebecca White's finely drawn novel was like taking a fascinating trip to a foreign land, complete with inimitable characters, curious cultural ritual, and plenty of unforgettable spectacle."
--Janelle Brown, author of All Ww Ever Wanted Was Everything
“With a deft hand, White paints scenes of stunning literary veracity. Each chapter is a self-contained wonder: evocative, poised, and resolutely complete.”
--Chandra Prasad, author of On Borrowed Wings
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If you would like a signed copy of Bound South, and I am not going to
be coming to a town near you on book tour, please click on the link to
A Cappella Books and they will send you one.
