Book Review: Lucy Come Home

ABOUT THE BOOK
Fifteen-year-old Cindy worked long days beside her migrant worker family in Michigan's sugar beet fields in the early 1940s -- the "war years" -- until she met a dashing young man from a traveling carnival, bringing some joy and fun into her hard-scrabble life. But a tragic twist of fate -- and a dead field boss-- sent the two young people on the run, leaving behind family and everything she'd ever known.

Lucy Tucker, the crotchety old bag lady from the popular Yada Yada House of Hope series, is a veteran of Chicago streets and not about to give up her independence, even as she approaches her 80th birthday.

Until, that is, a young displaced woman with her gentle aging mother and a dog named Dandy seem to need her -- unsettling the secretive Lucy, who doesn't let anyone get too close. But just when it seems her past is catching up with her to bring her in out of the cold... Lucy disappears again. How these two tales intersect and intertwine between past and present gradually shines light into the dark corners of Lucy's murky past. But... why won't Lucy come home?

ABOUT THE AUTHORS



Dave and Neta Jackson are award-winning authors living in the Chicago area where their parallel novels from the Yada Yada House of Hope and Harry Bentley series are set.

As a husband/wife writing team, Dave and Neta Jackson are enthusiastic about books, kids, walking with God, gospel music, and each other! Together they are the authors or coauthors of over 100 books.

Visit http://www.daveneta.com for more info.

MY THOUGHTS

Loved this book, it was a refreshingly different from the books I've been reading this summer.  Past and present come together quite well in the story and it is not confusing at all as you change from one time period to another in each chapter, they are quite nicely woven together.  Lucy is quite the character and each page of her present makes you wonder what happened in her past, but you slowly get to that, and it's worth the wait.

I have fallen in love with Lucy, and now would like to read the Yada Yada House of Hope series where Lucy also appears, these are authors worth watching and reading.

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*I received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for review from Litfuse Publicity