Kidnapped By My Dad's Best Friend

can A Woman Ever Really Know Herself If She Doesn’t Know Her Mother? from The Author Of The Smash-hit Bestseller firefly Lane and true Colors comes A Powerful, Heartbreaking Novel That Illuminates The Intricate Mother-daughter Bond And Explores The Enduring Links Between The Present And The Past meredith And Nina Whitson Are As Different As Sisters Can Be. One Stayed At Home To Raise Her Children And Manage The Family Apple Orchard; The Other Followed A Dream And Traveled The World To Become A Famous Photojournalist. But When Their Beloved Father Falls Ill, Meredith And Nina Find Themselves Together Again, Standing Alongside Their Cold, Disapproving Mother, Anya, Who Even Now, Offers No Comfort To Her Daughters. As Children, The Only Connection Between Them Was The Russian Fairy Tale Anya Sometimes Told The Girls At Night. On His Deathbed, Their Father Extracts A Promise From The Women In His Life: The Fairy Tale Will Be Told One Last Time—and All The Way To The End. Thus Begins An Unexpected Journey Into The Truth Of Anya’s Life In War-torn Leningrad, More Than Five Decades Ago. Alternating Between The Past And Present, Meredith And Nina Will Finally Hear The Singular, Harrowing Story Of Their Mother’s Life, And What They Learn Is A Secret So Terrible And Terrifying That It Will Shake The Very Foundation Of Their Family And Change Who They Believe They Are. publishers Weekly female Bonding Is Always Good For A Good Cry, As Hannah (true Colors ) Proves In Her Latest. Pacific Northwest Apple Country Provides A Beautiful, Chilly Setting For This Family Drama Ignited By The Death Of A Loving Father Whose Two Daughters Have Grown Apart From Each Other And From Their Acid-tongued, Russian-born Mother. After Assuming Responsibility For The Family Business, 40-year-old Empty-nester Meredith Finds It Difficult To Carry Out Her Father’s Dying Wish That She Take Care Of Her Mother; Meredith’s Troubled Marriage, Her Troubled Relationship With Her Mother And Her Mother’s Increasingly Troubled Mind Get In The Way. Nina, Meredith’s Younger Sister, Takes A Break From Her Globe-trotting Photojournalism Career To Return Home To Do Her Share For Their Mother. How These Three Women Find Each Other And Themselves With The Help Of Vodka And A Trip To Alaska Competes For Emotional Attention With The Story Within A Story Of Wwii Leningrad. Readers Will Find It Hard Not To Laugh A Little And Cry A Little More As Mother And Daughters Reach Out To Each Other Just In The Nick Of Time. (feb.) Meredith and Nina Whitson are as different as sisters can be. One stayed at home to raise her family and manage the family apple orchard; the other followed a dream and travelled the world to become a famous photojournalist. But these two estranged women come together at their father's deathbed standing alongside their cold, disapproving mother, Anya, to hear the one last promise he extracts from the women in his life. It begins with a story like no other. A captivating, mysterious love story that spans sixty-five years and moves from war torn Leningrad in the 1940's to modern-day Alaska. The three women are brought together by a story so unexpected and extraordinary that when Meredith and Nina finally learn the secret of their mother's past and uncover a truth so terrible, it will shake the very foundation of the family and who they think they are.[Bokinfo] 1941: Leningrad, a once magical city besieged by war, cut off from aid, buried in snow. A city full of women desperate to save their children and themselves. 2000: Loss and old age have taken a terrible toll on Anya Whitson. At last, she will reach out to her estranged daughters. In a halting, uncertain voice, she begins to weave a fable about a beautiful Russian girl who lived in Leningrad a lifetime ago. Nina and Meredith sit spellbound at their mother's bedside, listening to a story that spans more than sixty years. The truth behind the story contains a secret so impossible to believe that it shakes the foundation of their family and changes who they believe they are. -- adapted from back cover From the author of acclaimed national bestseller The Four Winds comes a haunting, heartbreakingly beautiful novel that illuminates the intricate mother–daughter bond and explores the enduring links between past and present. The dying wish of a loving father ignites a family drama that brings two sisters and their acid-tongued, Russian-born mother together in a story that reaches back to WWII Leningrad.