Story Description:
Penguin Press|E-Reader Edition|KOBO|ISBN:
978-1-101-19767-7
Looking to reconnect with their ancestral home and
with one another, three generations of women tour mainland China on a journey
that will change their family forever.
A stunning debut, A
Thread of Sky is the story of a family of women and the powerful thread
that binds their lives. In following the
paths chosen by six fiercely independent women, A Thread of Sky explores the terrain we must travel to recognize
the strength and vulnerability of those closest to us.
When her husband of thirty years is killed in a
devastating accident, Irene Shen and her three daughters are set adrift. Nora, the eldest, retreats into her
high-powered New York job and a troubled relationship. Kay, the headstrong middle child, escapes to
China to learn the language and heritage of her parents. Sophie, the sensitive and artistic youngest,
is trapped at home until college, increasingly estranged from her family – and herself. Terrified of being left alone with her grief,
Irene plans a tour of mainland China’s “must-sees”, reuniting three generations
of women – her three daughters, her distant poet sister, and her formidable
eighty-year-old mother – in a desperate attempt to heal her fractured
family.
If only it was so easy. Each woman arrives bearing secrets big and
small, and as they travel – visiting untouched sections of the Great Wall and
the seedy bars of Shanghai, the beautiful ancient temples and cold, modern shopping emporiums – they begin to
wonder if they will ever find the China they seek, the one their family fled
long ago.
Over days and miles they slowly find their way toward
a new understanding of themselves, of one another, and of the vast complexity
of their homeland, only to have their new bonds tested as never before when the
darkest, most carefully guarded secret of all tumbles to the surface and
threatens to tear their family apart forever.
A Thread of Sky is a
beautifully written and deeply haunting story about love and sacrifice, history
and memory, sisterhood and motherhood, and the connections that endure.
My Review:
I really don’t have a lot to say about this novel
other than the description above give enough detail for you to know and
understand what the book was about.
However, as for my take on the book, I didn’t enjoy it
as much as I thought I would. I found it
boring and rather mundane to be quite truthful, but that doesn’t mean you won’t
enjoy it so don’t allow my dislike to this book deter you from giving it a try.
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