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Title details for Before We Sleep by Jeffrey Lent - Available

Before We Sleep

by Jeffrey Lent
Christa Lewis
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Katey Snow, seventeen, slips the pickup into neutral and rolls silently out of the driveway of her Vermont home, her parents, Oliver and Ruth, still asleep. She isn't so much running away as on a journey of discovery. She carries with her a packet of letters addressed to her mother from an old army buddy of her father's. She has only recently been told that Oliver, who she adores more than anyone, isn't her biological father. She hopes the letter's sender will have answers to her many questions.
Before We Sleep moves gracefully between Katey's perspective on the road and her mother, Ruth's. Through Ruth's recollections, we learn of her courtship with Oliver, their marriage on the eve of war, and his return as a changed man. Oliver had always been a bit dreamy, but became more remote, finding solace most of all in repairing fiddles. There were adjustments, accommodations, sacrifices—but the family went on to find its own rhythms, satisfactions, and happiness. Now Katey's journey may rearrange the Snows' story.

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  • Release date

    July 4, 2017

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      • ISBN: 9781541426986
      • File size: 420983 KB
      • Duration: 14:37:02

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      March 27, 2017
      In his novel set in Vermont between the end of World War II and the early ’60s, Lent switches between the perspectives of a mother and daughter growing in different directions, but also growing closer as secrets from the past are revealed. Katey Snow and her mother, Ruth, have a strained relationship at the best of times. At age 17, when Katey discovers that Oliver Snow, the man she has looked up to her entire life, is not her biological father, she silently steals away from her parents’ house with a bundle of letters from a mysterious army friend of Oliver’s to learn for herself the truth of her mother’s past and her own beginning. Shifting between the end of the war and the political fallout of the following decades, Lent draws a parallel across time, connecting the vastly different yet similar lives of a mother and daughter each struggling to find her way through the secrets that have defined her—often not through their own doing. Lent’s fine prose depicts the touching physical and emotional journeys of the Snow family against a backdrop of the magical New England landscape.

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