Leota's Garden | 
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Now available in softcover! Award-winning author Francine Rivers opens a world full of vibrant characters with a powerful story of hope. In this stunning novel, Francine explores the new life that love can bring to a decaying garden of broken relationships. Through the lives of 84-year-old Leota, her granddaughter, and a college student with all the answers, Francine leads readers to ponder the value of life and truth in a way that only she can.
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Acclaimed Christian fiction writer Francine Rivers's (The Atonement Child) Leota's Garden uses the image of the garden as a metaphor for the cycles of life that the characters experience. While the story revolves around a number of lives, they are all connected through Leota--an 84-year-old grandmother--and her garden, which was once a place of beauty and hope but has in recent years gone to ruin. Beginning in desolation--Leota has been neglected by her self-centered daughter, whose obsession with getting her own daughter into the best college has driven them apart--the novel slowly shows the weaving together of lives in the mysterious ways of grace: a proud and narrow-minded college student ends up learning more from Leota than he'd bargained for, and the granddaughter Leota had never been allowed to know shows up looking for some answers, and even more, looking for Leota herself. A garden blooms, the novel suggests, by getting one's hands a little dirty doing the hard work of love. --Doug Thorpe
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Customer Reviews:
• Nice Story - Too Long! 19 February, 2008
I picked up the book and sincerely looked forward to reading it. That said, I think the story could have ended about 125 pages sooner than it did. There is so much repetition...I became quite frustrated with it and just began scanning pages. Sorry I don't share the same love of the book as others here... it became a 400+ page tome when instead could have just been a story of life with all its many problems. I won't be keeping it in my collection.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1VZHZBPVSCBPK
• Best Author 15 February, 2008
Francine Rivers has done it again! This is a great work, so good, I couldn't put it down! My kids and hubby just know they will not see me for a few days when I start reading one of Francine's books. This is a touching story, one you'll read more than once.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A27H57CUNDY3K0
• Not In Typical Francine Fashion 21 February, 2008
Francine Rivers is an amazing writer. For those who have not, you must read
Redeeming Love and the Mark of the Lion series. That said, Leota' Garden did disappoint. I agree that it was unbelievably slow (I contemplated stopping prior to completion) and quite redundant. But, I'll give Francine Rivers a break...not every book can be a masterpiece.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1I1D2DBBQANXF
• I Loved This Sweet Book! 26 June, 2008
Leota's Garden
I absolutely loved this book! I can't wait to read other books by Francine Rivers now. It was just the neatest portraial of a granddaughter's love for her grandmother.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A21GEXCE9C6KB
• Sick Twist 04 July, 2008
I was glued to this book for the two days it took me to read it so
you can imagine my utter shock and frustration when the book took a
twist turn at the end concerning Leota and a medical technician.
It was so unnecessary. It would have been nice for Leota and her daughter to reconcile or at LEAST die a normal peaceful death. I was very disappointed but overall enjoyed the dialogue throughout the book.
The Halloweeen "skit" was too drawn out for my liking but Leota was such dear I read to find out more and more about her sweet self. Other parts of the book caused me to raise my eybrows... How "predicatble" that the black kids would have an absentee father who was probably "in jail." There were enough odd placed comments concerning race to make me squirm in my seat but I suppose that was the author's intent. Bottom line is this was a good book but I probably wouldn't recommend it. The "feud" between mother (Leota) and daughter (Nora) seemed entirely overblown. And Annie was too perfect to be true. It was a pleasant book and this is Just my two cents.
- Reviewed by customer ID: AC7C6GTYXQ6YI
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