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978-0-89587-167-1
0-89587-167-X
$19.95 hardcover
6" x 8"
348 pages
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With my eyes
closed and pressed against my palms, I can go to the top of the world, a
dark night at the pole, stand and watch the future stretch out above in
front of me, thin glowing ribbons floating toward the stars, neon
ribbons of choice and luck, fireworks blooming fluorescence of hope
across the black sky. They are roads. You can travel them. Sometimes you
can travel them all. They flare and burn, you leap across, they shrivel
quickly, shower sparks, have the half-life of a waking dream. But if you
jump fast enough, you are halfway to a southbound nebula before your
feet know there's nothing there, the sparks are dying, and you're going
down. At that point, of course, you open your eyes. --from
Something Blue
Judy Duncan is so busy
navigating the day-to-day course of her life that she forgets to look at
the sky ahead. After all, between her four-year-old son Curtis, her
husband Hamp, and work at the family lumberyard, there's little time to
pay attention to storm warnings. And when Judy's sister Tina announces
that she's going to marry her college sweetheart Jimmy, Judy dismisses
the wedding as one of those family events that is nothing more than a
small inconvenience, a minor blip on the radar.
However, as Tina's wedding
grows near, the treacherous undercurrents of Judy's life rise to the
surface: the trailer that once felt so cozy now seems shabby and small;
a redecorating project at the country club rekindles lost dreams of a
career in architecture; and most importantly, just who is that
woman Hamp was kissing in the parking lot?
Suddenly, Judy finds herself
tossed into a sea of lies and family crisis. As she breaks free from the
shell of routine that surrounds her, she looks to the ties of family and
the vows of marriage for salvation. But ultimately she realizes that to
survive as a whole human being, she must surrender hope of rescue and
begin to swim toward shore.
In Something Blue,
Jean Spaugh has created a touching, often humorous, look at the bonds
and burdens of family. Judy Duncan knows how to be a wife, a mother, a
daughter, and a sister; but when those relationships are altered beyond
recognition, beyond what was once so comfortable and secure, she has to
discover how to live her own life. And along the way, she finds the
freedom she long ago renounced for love.
about the author
A former English instructor and editor, Jean Christopher Spaugh
holds a bachelor's degree from Columbia College in South Carolina and a
master's degree from Hollins College in Virginia. She resides in
Lawrenceville, Georgia, with her husband and two children.
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