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Roll the Sun Across the Sky
Barbara Linn Probst
Publication Date: May 13th, 2025
She Writes Press
320 Pages
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Genre: Literary Fiction | Women’s Fiction
I’ve never read this author before, but have read good things about this one via reviews, so I figured this would be a good way to start, and am I ever glad I did. It was women’s fiction at its best. This was a beautifully written story about a woman named Arden, and it takes place in two timelines. I love a good dual timeline story. This one takes us back to 1977 when our main character was a teacher and went to Europe with her friend Robert. I did not like Arden at first, as I found her to be selfish and self-serving. Can she redeem herself, faults and all?
The second timeline is in 2013, when Arden is about to celebrate turning sixty, she decides to do this with her daughter’s family, but tragedy strikes and Arden is left to take care of her 10-year-old granddaughter. Arden blames herself for the tragedy and thinks this may be the consequences or punishment for her past behaviour, so this is when she starts to think of what and who she’s done.
It was such an interesting and thought-provoking multigenerational tale that deals with mother-daughter relationships, healing and forgiving oneself. And although I didn’t like Arden in the beginning, the character development made up for it in spades. The author writes emotions and family dynamics in a very moving way.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.
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