Happy Friday, book lovers, and welcome to First Line Friday hosted by Hoarding Books. This week, I’m looking forward to reading Lisa Wingate’s upcoming release, The Book of Lost Friends. Her previous novel Before We Were Yours was an emotional but fabulous read, so I’m looking forward to becoming thoroughly engrossed in this one as well. It releases next Tuesday, 7 April 2020.
About the Book
Bestselling author Lisa Wingate brings to life startling stories from actual “Lost Friends” advertisements that appeared in Southern newspapers after the Civil War, as newly freed slaves desperately searched for loved ones who had been sold away.
Louisiana, 1875: In the tumultuous era of Reconstruction, three young women set off as unwilling companions on a perilous quest: Hannie, a freed slave; Lavinia, the pampered heir to a now destitute plantation; and Juneau Jane, Lavinia’s Creole half sister. Each carries private wounds and powerful secrets as they head for Texas, following roads rife with vigilantes and soldiers still fighting a war lost a decade before. For Lavinia and Juneau Jane, the journey is one of stolen inheritance and financial desperation, but for Hannie, torn from her mother and siblings before slavery’s end, the pilgrimage west reignites an agonizing question: Could her long-lost family still be out there? Beyond the swamps lie the limitless frontiers of Texas and, improbably, hope.
Louisiana, 1987: For first-year teacher Benedetta Silva, a subsidized job at a poor rural school seems like the ticket to canceling her hefty student debt—until she lands in a tiny, out-of-step Mississippi River town. Augustine, Louisiana, is suspicious of new ideas and new people, and Benny can scarcely comprehend the lives of her poverty-stricken students. But amid the gnarled live oaks and run-down plantation homes lie the century-old history of three young women, a long-ago journey, and a hidden book that could change everything.
First Line
I’d love it if you’d share the first line of whatever you’re currently reading in the comments. And don’t forget, you can find out what other bloggers are sharing for First Line Friday by going over to Hoarding Books blog and finding all the links. If you’ve got your own blog, why not join in and add your link over there. 🙂
My book this week is Dead End by Nancy Mehl
Chief of Police Everett Sawyer stood over the body they’d just dug up in the old rail yard north of the city.
Happy Friday! 🙂
I’m currently reading Dead End by Nancy Mehl. I’m halfway through and I’m loving it so much. I’m on chapter 23, so I’ll share from there:
“Before Noah and Kaely left the restaurant, Noah called Chief Sawyer and told him about the note given to Kenny.”
Hope you have a great weekend filled with awesome reading time. 😊❤📖
The Book of Lost Friends sounds very interesting! I’ll have to look into it next week.
Happy Friday!
That’s a beautiful first line 🙂
My first line this week comes from The Happy Camper by Melody Carlson:
“Dillon Michaels was fed up-but it wasn’t with dinner.”
I hope you have a great rest of your weekend.
Happy Friday! My first line is from “A Latte Difficulty” by Angela Ruth Strong:
“Black is a good color for coffee, not bridesmaid dresses.”
It’s sooo good I hope you like it too when you get to read it!
Today on my blog I shared the first line from Before I Called You Mine by Nicole Deese but I just started reading The Joy of Falling by Lindsay Harrel so I’ll share the first line from chapter 3 here: “Few places reminded her more of Brent than the Saturday-morning farmers market.” Hope you have a great weekend with some quality reading time 🙂