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Adrienne Benson Ò 0 REVIEW REVIEW ´ The Brightest Sun G Kenyan terrain as these women's lives intertwine in unexpected ways As they face their own challenges and heartbreaks they find strength traversing the arid landscapes of tenuous human connection With gripping poignancy The Brightest Sun explores the heartbreak of loss the struggle to find a sense of belonging and the surprising ways we find our family and ho This was a well written book with lots of good characters I cannot believe it s a first novel The book is about three women who live in Africa and their lives There s not a dull page in the book and I am very grateful that I won it on goodreads Let s hope Adrienne Benson is writing her next novel
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Adrienne Benson Ò 0 REVIEW REVIEW ´ The Brightest Sun An illuminating debut following three women in sub Saharan Africa as they search for home and familyLeona an isolated American anthropologist gives birth to a baby girl in a remote Maasai village and must decide how she can be a mother in spite of her own grim childhood Jane a lonely expat wife follows her husband to the tropics and learns just how fragile life Three women each bearing a burden Leona is carrying the awful things that happened to her as a child something that stifles her with fear of the closeness of a relationship and distances her from her newborn daughter Simi is grieving for her inability to bear children of being barren in a society where a woman is deemed worthless without children but mostly her deep desire to be a mother Jane bears the burden of guilt failing to promise her mother to care for her brother as her mother asked before she died Their paths cross in the wild and beautiful land of Kenya home to Simi and where Leona comes as an anthropologist and Jane with her husband who works for the State Department This is a story of mothers and their children a story about women who are not perfect but yet I was drawn to them In their introspective narratives I was captivated by their personal struggles their tragedies their complexities and their relationships with their daughters Adia and Grace who become the links that bring that bring them together It is also the story of Leona and her mother and John Adia s father and his mother I think it s notable that Adrienne Benson does not shy away from some controversial topics related to the practice of genitalia cutting in young women and to the poaching of animals She was raised in Africa and her first hand knowledge and experience there shines through this moving heart breaking yet hopeful book I received an advanced copy of this book from Park Row BooksHarleuin through NetGalley
Adrienne Benson Ò 0 REVIEWAdrienne Benson Ò 0 REVIEW REVIEW ´ The Brightest Sun Is Simi a barren Maasai woman must confront her infertility in a society in which females are valued by their reproductive roles In this affecting debut novel these three very different women grapple with motherhood recalibrate their identities and confront unforeseen tragedies and triumphsIn beautiful evocative prose Adrienne Benson brings to life the strikin I loved this book and am recommending it to reader friends It s definitely an illuminating debut The author does a skillful job of weaving together the stories of 3 women and various related characters I love books that transport me far from my everyday life or in this case far from the airplane where I read most of the book I too am always drawn to books set in Africa especially East Africa and the world of expats peace Corp and aid workers etc
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- The Brightest Sun
- Adrienne Benson
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- 10 August 2018
- 9780778331278
(PDF KINDLE) [The Brightest Sun] ☆ Adrienne Benson Three women each bearing a burden Leona is carrying the awful things that happened to her as a child something that stifles her with fear of the closeness of a relationship and distances her from her newborn daughter Simi is grieving for her inability to bear children of being barren in a society where a woman is deemed worthless without children but mostly her deep desire to be a mother Jane bears the burden of guilt failing to promise
REVIEW Û PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook Ò Adrienne Benson (PDF KINDLE) [The Brightest Sun] ☆ Adrienne Benson This was the perfect book to finish on Mother's day as it focuses on three different mothers Two of them have the added challenge of also trying to adjust and make a living in a country not their own The country is Africa Kenya but also travels to s few other places on the continent I am not going to rehash the plot because the book
(PDF KINDLE) [The Brightest Sun] ☆ Adrienne Benson The setting is Africa mainly Kenya Having visited Africa a number of times I often enjoy books which view the locations from the perspective of various characters This is a character driven story focusing on three mothers It shows how each was shaped by their own background culture and early life by distant neglectful or
Adrienne Benson Ò 0 REVIEW (PDF KINDLE) [The Brightest Sun] ☆ Adrienne Benson I loved this book and am recommending it to reader friends It’s definitely an “illuminating debut” The author does a skillful job of we
(PDF KINDLE) [The Brightest Sun] ☆ Adrienne Benson ARC provided by the author in exchange for an honest review The Brightest Sun by Adrienne Benson was the brightest part of my weekend
(PDF KINDLE) [The Brightest Sun] ☆ Adrienne Benson Having been to Africa twice and read several books set in various parts of Africa The Poisonwood Bible Half of a Yellow Sun Little Bee Americanah The Constant Gardener The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency Leopard at the Door The Tears of Dark Water West With the Night Circling the Sun and now this I didn't feel tha
(PDF KINDLE) [The Brightest Sun] ☆ Adrienne Benson This was a well written book with lots of good characters I cannot believe it's a first novel The book is about three women who live in Africa and their lives There's not a dull page in the book and I am very grateful that I won it on goodread
(PDF KINDLE) [The Brightest Sun] ☆ Adrienne Benson The Brightest Sun by Adrienne Benson is about belonging—in a country in a community in a family The story weaves between several women Leona an anthropologist who escaped a troubled childhood in Oregon to find herself in a remote village in Kenya; Jane whose early experiences in Africa were filled with violence at the hands of poachers and who later returns to the country as the wife of an embassy employee; Simi the Maasai woman who is
(PDF KINDLE) [The Brightest Sun] ☆ Adrienne Benson REVIEW Û PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook Ò Adrienne Benson Adrienne Benson Ò 0 REVIEW Well I think this was just a mismatch The book itself wasn't necessarily bad but I sure didn't enjoy it I actually resorted to skimming uite a bit I read this for a book club and that is what motivated met to finish this one All that being said if this sounds interesting to you go for it
(PDF KINDLE) [The Brightest Sun] ☆ Adrienne Benson I'm always drawn to books and movies that take place in Africa This heart wrenching novel draws a portrait of Kenya that is easily visualized bustling Nairobi dusty Masai villages the drought stricken Great Rift Valley and a giant b