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yellowdogintexas

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28. The Flying Cutterbucks by Kathleen Rogers
Sun Mar 21, 2021, 03:12 PM
Mar 2021

Decades ago, Trudy, Georgia, and Aunt Star formed a code of silence to protect each other from an abusive man who terrorized their family. One act of solidarity long ago lives with them still. With the election of a president who brags about groping women without their consent, old wounds and deep secrets come alive again, forcing hard truths to be told and even harder truths to be left to the dead.

On the outskirts of Pardon, New Mexico, Trudy returns to her mother, Jewel, to navigate an old house filled with haunting mementos of her father who went missing in action over North Vietnam. As she helps her mother sift through the memories and finally lay her father to rest, Trudy will do her own soul searching to say goodbye to the dead, and find her way along with the other women in her family, and through the next election.

I am about half finished and have just confirmed that the act of solidarity is what I suspected it to be.

It was $1.99 on Kindle. I ordered it because my Sunday School class is having a discussion group based on the book and the author is related to two of the class members. (Author is a Presbyterian minister and pastor of the church Lincoln attended when he lived in Illinois)

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