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    After the Leaves Fall
    After the Leaves Fall
    After the Leaves Fall
    Audiobook9 hours

    After the Leaves Fall

    Written by Nicole Baart

    Narrated by Johanna Parker

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Nicole Baart has received critical acclaim for her beautifully written debut novel. In this compelling coming-of-age story, Julia DeSmit endures the painful depths of love and loss and enjoys the comforting glimmers of faith and hope. Trying to redefine herself, Julia attends a nearby university. But when she returns home for Thanksgiving, unexpected events leave her vulnerable. Soon a sobering reality carries her through an Iowa blizzard-to begin a life she never planned.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMar 14, 2008
    ISBN9781436116442
    After the Leaves Fall
    Author

    Nicole Baart

    Nicole Baart is the author of eleven novels, including Everything We Didn’t Say and The Long Way Back. The cofounder of a nonprofit and mother of five, she lives in Iowa with her family. Learn more at NicoleBaart.com.

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    • 3/5
      'After the Leaves Fall' is a coming of age story told by Julia who finds herself dealing with tragedy, loss and teenage pregnancy. Julia never really appeals to me (there is something about that name). I found her self-centered, immature and frustrating throughout the book and wanted to give her a good shake!
    • 3/5
      This book is good towards the end. The beginning and very end of the book do alot of jumping around. It get confusing. Alot of flash back explainations that don't need to be there.
    • 4/5
      Great book !!! Yes, I will be reading the next 2.
    • 4/5
      The writing was a refreshing surprise. Ms. Baart captured the conflicting emotions of Julia so well. The picture of faith that Ms. Baart painted was also beautiful. Julia is disconnected from the faith of her childhood, but her grandmother exhibits that true ability to love as God does because she is truly trying to walk with God and that was both inspiring and understated. I really enjoyed this book
    • 4/5
      I heard this on one of my talk shows I listen to, said his wife and staff members couldn't put it down and it was offered free on Amazon Kindle on Valentine's Day. I had no idea what this book was about. But I wanted to read it anyway.Once I started, I was sucked in. The main character was real and down to earth. Her mom left, her dad died, and she went to live with her grandmother on a farm in some small town. Her life turned upside down and semi-bitter, her faith became questionable as she went on through her life trying to find her way. Despite the many differences between her life and mine, I felt I could connect with her on a deeper level. I saw myself in her thoughts many times. Her uncomfortable-ness with others, her feelings of invisibleness, her falter of faith, her independence, and her lack of direction and where she fit in -- I've seen it all within myself growing up. I really enjoyed reading about Julia's growth and her "one step forward, two steps back" dance with life. Because, isn't that how life operates? And who really is your one constant in life? It wasn't her mother, her father, her grandmother and it surely wasn't Thomas. Julia finally realizes who her constant is at the end. Julia's story is not complete at the end of the book. Be warned and anticipate purchasing her sequel. :)
    • 4/5
      The touching inner journey of a young woman to hope and a budding faith is what is at the heart of this book. Julia's life starts rough and doesn't improve as time goes on. Her mother has no interest in being a mother, and indeed "Janice" as she and her father call her leaves Julia and her father when Julia is just a little girl. They move out to live on the farmstead with Julia's grandmother--and when Julia's father dies a few years later Julia suddenly finds her world reduced to long lonely nights wondering if she is doomed to be alone forever. Julia does strike up a friendship with the "boy next door", Thomas, but even that ends in disappointment when he goes to college and finds a girlfriend. When it is time for Julia herself to go to college, she finds a glimmer of hope, thinking maybe this is the time when she will be able to reinvent herself and find belonging at last. But life has still more curve balls to throw at her, and in the end she may find that she has no one to turn to, except the God that she turned her back on long ago. Readers who enjoy savoring an introspective story about the inner struggles of a thoughtful journeyer will enjoy this novel. It ends rather abruptly, but there is a sequel called Summer Snow so readers that hate cliffhangers might want to plan ahead and get both books at once.