The Threadbare Heart by Jennie Nash
I was a HUGE fan of The Only True Genius in the Family and so had huge expectations for Jennie Nash’s new novel The Threadbare Heart. Oh my goodness. This woman has incredible talent. I LOVED this book. The Threadbare Heart is a story of family: of mothers, daughters, sons, wives, and husbands. It is a story of friends. It is a story of love, marriage, commitment, uncertainty, grief, sorrow and healing.
I must share with you the opening paragraphs* of the book which drew me in completely:
Love was the one thing Lily always thought she did better than her mother. She believed that she knew exactly what love took, what it cost, and what it meant, and she though of her long marriage to Tom as proof of it. But in the short period of time between Christmas and the start of fire season, everything she understood about love unraveled, the way jeans do at the hem, the way tweed does so that it reveals the intricate relationship of the warp and the weft, and she realized how very little she knew about the way love worked. People naturally assumed, after everything that happened, that it was a bitter revelation, but they were wrong.
“Would you do it all again, knowing what you know now?” her mother Eleanor, asked. Eleanor was, at that moment, seventy-five years old, about to be married again herself, and hoping that this time she might get it right.
“In a heartbeat,” Lily said – not only because she believed it, but because she knew it was what her mother needed to hear.
I’m not going to share too much of the plot with you today. Suffice to say that I think the back cover synopsis spoils the book completely. Thank goodness I NEVER read back cover synopsis until after the fact. Something happened in the book which I’m glad I didn’t know was going to happen because it made it just that much more powerful. So if you see this one in the store, don’t pick it up to read what it says on the back. Just go to the cash register and take it home with you.
Suffice it to say that this is a story of Lily and her longstanding marriage to Tom. It’s a story of Lily’s mother who is about to be married for the fourth time. It’s a story of Lily’s two sons, one who is wondering himself if he’d be one to take after his mother or his grandmother. I know that that description is about the most basic I could give but it’s a story with such incredible depth. Jennie Nash writes with such beauty. The emotions that she’s able to bring out in her characters is one that will have you crying right alongside them.
A gorgeous novel.
I am THRILLED to offer you an opportunity to win a signed copy of The Threadbare Heart and ten signed copies, a call-in from Jennie Nash, and a rum cake to one lucky grand prize winner (chosen from all participating blogs in this awesome promotion). There is a PDF document embedded here. If you can not view it, than click here.
It’s simple. Leave me a comment and in just 250 words explain your favorite fictional mother-daughter pair. I will post the entry I like best on my blog the day after Mother’s Day (other blogs will post theirs Mother’s Day but I will be offline and unable to do so). Then Jennie Nash will pick the grand prize entry from those.
Seriously folks, you NEED this book. I loved it so much.
*quoted from an uncorrected proof
Links of interest: Jennie Nash website, blog, and follow on Twitter. Maw Books reviews of The Only True Genius in the Family, The Last Beach Bungalow book review, Jennie Nash guest post and my interview with Jennie talking about The Last True Genius in the Family. More book blogger reviews.
Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Berkley Trade. May 4, 2010
Paperback, 336 pages. ISBN 042523410X
Source: Review copy
The Threadbare Heart by Jennie Nash is available from your favorite independent bookstore, Powell’s, and Amazon.
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I’m having trouble even thinking of one, but I’m going to think about it and come back around to all of you who are promoting this book. I really need it. And some rum cake! And I appreciate your vagueness. Kathy did the same thing. She protected us from too much plot. It is always more fun to explore the book without any forewarning!
on May 2nd, 2010 at 6:56 amWow–that’s a hard one. I’ll have to think on that awhile, but I just wanted to say this was a fantastic review and I’ve added the book to my TBR list. Thanks for the warning about the back cover!
on May 2nd, 2010 at 7:00 amI like your blog! I’ve added a link to it from my blog, from a new Book Review page. I’ll soon be blogging about the importance of reviewers. Thanks for doing what you do!
on May 2nd, 2010 at 9:44 amI appreciate vagueness too. I dont remember the review on The one true genius in the family. I requested it from the library, will see how it goes. Thanks for the review
on May 2nd, 2010 at 9:47 amThank you for this lovely review. My goodness! What a great writer YOU are — and of course, an amazing READER, too. I’m so glad you “got” everything that was going on in this book. This is one of the very first reviews I’ve read, and I have to say I’m a little bit giddy!!! I WISH I had more control over the back of the book, the way (and the cover, too.) I think I have to get more famous!!!
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on May 3rd, 2010 at 7:12 amWhat a wonderful sounding book…this is the second glowing review I’ve seen. I really hate when synopses on the back of the book tell too much!
on May 3rd, 2010 at 8:55 amI’m glad that I’m not the only one that thought the back cover was a huge spoiler. I HAD read it, and assumed the event would happen in the first quarter of the book and the rest of the book would be aftermath, so I was sort of disappointed when it didn’t happen until 2/3 of the way into the book, because I felt it should be a surprise. Luckily Jennie wrote a great enough book that I still really liked it.
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