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| Title | : | Rush Home Road |
| Author | : | Lori Lansens |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 387 pages |
| Published | : | November 1st 2005 by Little, Brown (first published January 1st 2002) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Canada |
Lori Lansens
Hardcover | Pages: 387 pages Rating: 4.14 | 9594 Users | 859 Reviews
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Sharla Cody is only five, but has already lived a troubled life -- only to find herself dumped on an elderly neighbor's doorstep when her mother takes off for the summer. Although Sharla is not the angelic child Addy Shadd had pictured when she agreed to look after her, the two soon forge a deep bond. To Addy's surprise, Sharla's presence brings back memories of her own childhood in Rusholme, a town settled by fugitive slaves in the mid-1800s. She reminisces about her family, her first love, and the painful experience that drove her away from home. Brilliantly structured -- and achingly lyrical, this is a story about the redeeming power of love and memory, and about two unlikely people who transform each other's lives forever.
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| Original Title: | Rush Home Road |
| ISBN: | 0316069027 (ISBN13: 9780316069021) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Nominee (2002) |
Rating Epithetical Books Rush Home Road
Ratings: 4.14 From 9594 Users | 859 ReviewsDiscuss Epithetical Books Rush Home Road
Did you ever read a book that you didn't want to end? Or that you hated to leave the characters? That's how I felt toward the end of this book. Lori Lansens' story grabbed me on the first page to the last. Beautifully written!To say that I enjoyed meeting Addy and Sharla would be an understatement. Such a wonderfully written book. I don't usually enjoy a book full of coincidences but this book had me hoping that each step in the journey would lead them to peace and home.
This is my favourite read so far this year! It is both a heartbreaking and heartwarming story at the same time, that focuses on the lives of Addy and Sharla. It moves effortlessly between the story of Addy who because of a terrible incident and a thoughtless community must leave home as a young pregnant teenager. Addy now elderly and living alone, has Sharla a 5 year old neglected/abused child abandoned on her door step. The start of the book had me in tears for this poor child. Every child
I really enjoyed this plot driven novel by Canadian writer Lori Lansens. When I started reading this Novel I found that by the end of second chapter I was totally drawn into the story and was captivated by the characters and the premise of the story.The novel is set in the 1920s and 1970s in a trailer park in a small town in Canada and tells the story of 70 year old Addy Shadd. A fellow neighbour Collette drops her 5 year old Sharla off with Addy and disappears. Addy reluctantly steps in as
Such a good book! Set in both the 1930s and the 1990s, this rich literary novel tells the story of Addy Shadd, a black woman in the Great Lakes region of Canada and the U.S., starting with the violent disruption of her nearly idyllic life as a teenager in Rusholme. Rusholme was the end of a line on the Underground Railroad and had become one of the few places where blacks owned property and lived outside most of the prejudice and discrimination of the pre-civil-rights era. A pregnant Addy is
I have a new author on my favourites list and this book was AMAZING! In my little world three stars out of five means it was a pretty good read this book I would give six!The book is set in the Detroit-Windsor-Chatham corrider of Southern Ontario (as are most of Ms. Lansens books) and tells the story of Sharla Cody and Mum-Addy. Sharla is a five year old who has had a tough go of it already and Addy is a 70 year old who had a tough go of it all her life. Addy agrees to look after Sharla for the
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