Exquisite storytelling - imagery that awakens all of your senses to the present IN the story.
Laura Hall has brought her father, and all of his many facets, to life with her rich storytelling and vivid imagery of how he lived a wholehearted, but closeted life as a married father of four who could not openly live as a gay man in his time.
The reader is transported in time, even smelling the kitchen in a fixer-upper her parents bought to raise their family in 1957. Writers aren't taught to write like this anymore. We live in a "get to the point" society and "show me, don't tell me" has been lost. Laura shares her memories, complete with details from all of her senses at the time.
I wanted to know more, and can't wait to read the rest of the book.
The reader is transported in time, even smelling the kitchen in a fixer-upper her parents bought to raise their family in 1957. Writers aren't taught to write like this anymore. We live in a "get to the point" society and "show me, don't tell me" has been lost. Laura shares her memories, complete with details from all of her senses at the time.
I wanted to know more, and can't wait to read the rest of the book.