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    How the Light Gets In
    How the Light Gets In
    How the Light Gets In
    Audiobook10 hours

    How the Light Gets In

    Written by Jolina Petersheim

    Narrated by Tavia Gilbert

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    About this audiobook

    From the highly acclaimed author of The Outcast and The Alliance comes an engrossing novel about marriage and motherhood, loss, and moving on.

    When Ruth Neufeld's husband and father-in-law are killed working for a relief organization overseas, she travels to Wisconsin with her young daughters and mother-in-law, Mabel, to bury her husband. She hopes the Mennonite community will be a quiet place to grieve and piece together next steps.

    Ruth and her family are welcomed by Elam, her husband's cousin, who invites them to stay at his cranberry farm through the harvest. Sifting through fields of berries and memories of a marriage that was broken long before her husband died, Ruth finds solace in the beauty of the land and healing through hard work and budding friendship. She also encounters the possibility of new love with Elam, whose gentle encouragement awakens hopes and dreams she thought she'd lost forever.

    But an unexpected twist threatens to unseat the happy ending Ruth is about to write for herself. On the precipice of a fresh start and a new marriage, Ruth must make an impossible decision: which path to choose if her husband isn't dead after all.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOasis Audio
    Release dateMar 5, 2019
    ISBN9781621889311

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    • 5/5
      This book is such a wide range of emotions. It’ll rip your heart out then give it back to you. Definitely worth a read!
    • 5/5
      Wow. This book is so powerful. Spoke to my heart on so many levels. Emotive, beautiful weaving of words and life and emotions. I felt it was written for me, for such a time as this. Highly recommend
    • 5/5
      While some of the circumstances one has or could go through, might have created the basis for this books storyline, I found it a very sad story all the way around!
    • 5/5
      Great story and surprise ending. Plus loved the message at the end by the author from her own experience.
    • 4/5
      The book had a slow start for me and I nearly gave up. I thought I would go back to it later. I decided to keep going because Tavia Gilbert is a fantastic narrator.

      It was a tough story and one that was confusing and frustrating at times. Much like life. However, it was a good book and I will read more by this author.
    • 5/5
      Stunningly beautiful! I stopped in the middle having never read any of Jolina's other books I didn't know how she would finish it and I was afraid of being angrily disappointed...I shouldn't have. The last 5 chapters I cried and smiled and laughed and cried again. It is beautiful, touching, and an amazing encouragement to deep relationships.