A Far Journey

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Grief is a far country that we visit for a while when our loved ones go home. Sometimes our visit is a long one and we have a hard time finding our way back. When we do we carry the memories not as a burden but as a treasure. When fourteen-year-old Anne Marie Gibson loses her mother and her father remarries soon after Annie finds that the journey back from that far country-a journey complicated by her resentment of her father's remarriage and of her stepmother's presence-is hard indeed. She also must adapt to the issues and demands of her first year in high school which provide a counterpoint to her conflicts at home. </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Set in the 1960's in western Oklahoma A FAR JOURNEY is a mesmerizing recital of the timeless issues of learning to go on in the face of grief acceptance forgiveness friendship and love.</strong></p>