I have to admit, this book didn’t immediately hook me or draw me in. I didn’t fall madly in love with the characters and the ‘action’ happened fairly slowly. But by the end of the book, I realized that I had actually enjoyed it in its entirety.
Sara Drexel is a graphic artist whose life is ‘okay’. Nothing majorly wrong, nothing over the top great. She and husband, Finn, own a small graphic design/letterpress print shop where they have a small staff of themselves and two others. They produce quirky pieces for quirky clients, and Finn has started a ‘microchurch’, his idea of the antithesis to a ‘megachurch’.
Without warning, Sara’s Aunt Bel, whom she has not seen since she was four years old, returns from Khazakstan, where she went for a mission trip twenty years before and never came back or stayed in touch.
Bel is decidedly odd, and definitely ‘un-missionary’ like. She smokes like a chimney and keeps to herself for the most part. She has a secret, or two or three. And Sara feels the need to figure out what’s going on. Bel and Sara’s mom (her sister) don’t speak. Why? Secret one. Bel broke her arm at some point and it wasn’t set to heal properly. Why? Secret two. There’s been some mumblings about an accident (nothing to do with Bel’s broken arm). What accident? When? Secret three.
It’s definitely interesting to see what unfolds as the secrets are revealed, although I would have liked this to happen a little sooner.
It’s a good, quick read and you’ll enjoy a few shocking moments!
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