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Mourning Dove

By: Claire Fullerton
Narrated by: Claire Fullerton
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"An accurate and heart-wrenching picture of the sensibilities of the American South." (Kirkus Book Reviews)

The heart has a home when it has an ally. If Millie Crossan doesn't know anything else, she knows this one truth simply because her brother Finley grew up beside her. Charismatic Finley, 18 months her senior, becomes Millie's guide when their mother Posey leaves their father and moves her children from Minnesota to Memphis shortly after Millie's 10th birthday.

Memphis is a world foreign to Millie and Finley. This is the 1970s Memphis, the genteel world of their mother's upbringing and vastly different from anything they've ever known. Here they are the outsiders. Here, they only have each other. And here, as the years fold over themselves, they mature in a manicured Southern culture where they learn firsthand that much of what glitters isn't gold.

Nuance, tradition, and Southern eccentrics flavor Millie and Finley's world, as they find their way to belonging. But what hidden variables take their shared history to leave both brother and sister at such disparate ends?

©2018 Claire Fullerton (P)2018 Claire Fullerton
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A Slice of Family Life!

This Audiobook is told from the point of view of Millie who grew up in sixties and seventies American south. Millie and her brother spent their early life in Minnesota until their alcoholic father caused there parents to separate. So suddenly they find themselves in Memphis where they their mother finds herself back home at 79 Kensington Park. Millie and Finley slowly learn to navigate this strange new world. Finley can’t wait to get a way and pursue his musical career. Millie always relied on Finley to make her life more bearable.
Especially when have to learn to live with their Stepfather who wants to control everything that goes on the house. This is slice family life and how every changes as we become adults. This is a compelling account of sister, daughter and wife’s changing relationship with her brother Finley. I far as was concerned the narrator is Millie recounting  her from childhood until today. As I’m English this is a wonderful window into the up and downs of  Millie’s life in the American South.

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