SummaryNo one brings home the power of family to shape and heal us
like national bestselling author Gwynne Forster. Now, in
BLUES FROM DOWN DEEP, she crafts an unforgettable story of
one woman's search for the family she's never known—but
whose pull she'll never be able to escape again...
BLUES FROM DOWN DEEP Regina Pearson has never really known any family other than
her late, widowed father. He cut ties with his family in
North Carolina long ago and moved to Hawaii with Regina's
mother, then raised Regina alone following his wife's
accidental death. Living among the native Hawaiians so
different from herself created in Regina an aching for
people to call her own. Regina finds among her late
parents' effects a letter written forty years earlier that
leads to her mother's sister, Maude, a been-there, done-
that blues singer, and her nonagenarian maternal
grandfather, head of the extended family in New Bern, North
Carolina. For Regina, going to North Carolina to see Aunt Maude is
the chance of a lifetime—an opportunity to bond with the
people who share her roots, her blood, and her heart, and
find the pieces of her she's been lonely for all these
years. But the big, warm, loving family Regina's dreamed
about is nowhere in sight. Instead, she finds uncles,
aunts, and cousins torn apart by secrets and lies, petty
squabbles and heartbreaking wounds stretching back for
years—a contentious clan ready to draw Regina front-and-
center into their troubles whether she wants to be there or
not. And just as her new family conflict threatens to
overwhelm her, Regina discovers a passionate connection she
hadn't counted on with a man who's ready to show her what
real family's all about—and what it takes to keep the love
flowing. Filled with heartfelt wit and homespun wisdom, BLUES FROM
DOWN DEEP is a joyous reminder that love comes when we
least expect it, from every side of life, and the family
that makes us crazy can also lead us home to the place
where we belong.
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