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In Common: A Novel of Love and Sacrifice
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9781684339235
Publisher: Black Rose Writing
Published: Apr 14 2022
Pages: 594
Weight: 1.56
Height: 1.47 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Common, a first novel from award-winning memoirist Norma Watkins (The Last Resort, That Woman from Mississippi), is the story of how much women willingly sacrifice for love.
Lillian Creekmore grows up at her family's popular rural spa. She successfully runs an entire hotel, yet longs for a husband. Then she meets Will Hughes.
Velma Vernon accepts life on a small, struggling farm until a boy she barely tolerates proposes marriage. To accept means duplicating her parents' hard life. Alone, she leaves for the city and triumphs, not as a wife, but by being the best at her job. Velma is content until the most beautiful man she has ever seen walks into her office.
This moving and darkly humorous novel follows the intertwined lives of women willing to surrender everything to a man.
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