CFBA: The Art of Losing Yourself

This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing The Art of Losing Yourself WaterBrook Press (April 21, 2015) by Katie Ganshert

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Award-winning author, Katie Ganshert, graduated from the University of Wisconsin in Madison with a degree in education, and worked as a fifth grade teacher for several years before staying home to write full-time. She was born and raised in the Midwest, where she lives with her family. When she’s not busy penning novels or spending time with her people, she enjoys drinking coffee with friends, reading great literature, and eating copious amounts of dark chocolate.



ABOUT THE BOOK

Just like in my dream, I was drowning and nobody even noticed.

Every morning, Carmen Hart pastes on her made-for-TV smile and broadcasts the weather. She’s the Florida panhandle’s favorite meteorologist, married to everyone’s favorite high school football coach. They’re the perfect-looking couple, live in a nice house, and attend church on Sundays. From the outside, she’s a woman who has it all together. But on the inside, Carmen Hart struggles with doubt. She wonders if she made a mistake when she married her husband. She wonders if God is as powerful as she once believed. Sometimes she wonders if He exists at all. After years of secret losses and empty arms, she’s not so sure anymore.

Until Carmen’s sister—seventeen year old runaway, Gracie Fisher—steps in and changes everything. Gracie is caught squatting at a boarded-up motel that belongs to Carmen’s aunt, and their mother is off on another one of her benders, which means Carmen has no other option but to take Gracie in. Is it possible for God to use a broken teenager and an abandoned motel to bring a woman’s faith and marriage back to life? Can two half-sisters make each other whole?

If you would like to read the first chapter of The Art of Losing Yourself, go HERE.

MY THOUGHTS
Carmen Hart...a TV personality, seems to have it all....she's definitely 'put-together' while broadcasting.

But....she hurts, she's terribly sad and has a breakdown while shopping for a baby gift.  It's actually rather humorous...what she does, but still very sad.

Before she knows it, her world drastically changes, a run-away sister, a 'break' from work and her plans change and she's working on an old broken down hotel...which brings back a flood of memories.

Her husband...he's broken too, the question is whether or not everyone can heal.   Carmen, her husband, her sister, even her mom.....

A very good book, there's a lot of hope, healing, and yet a bit of lightheartedness keeps the book from being a sad sad read.




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