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Cargando... Sing in the Morning, Cry at Nightpor Barbara J. Taylor
   Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.   ) laytonwoman3rd | Aug 31, 2019 |   Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. ) bibliovermis | Oct 4, 2016 | The Morgan family is composed of Owen, the father, Grace, the mother and their two girls, nine year old Daisy and 8 year old Violet. On July 4, 1913, there is a horrible accident and Daisy is left mortally burned. As Daisy slowly dies over three days, Violet plays the piano for her while Daisy sings hymns. The whole town blames Violet for the death of her sister and neither parent is able to set aside their own grief to comfort or console her. Grace Morgan is already emotionally fragile and the death of her daughter pushes her into a severe depression. She has personified Grief as a real person since the death of her father when she was a child, and with each death and each miscarriage she has had, Grief has grown stronger. Daisy's death pushes Grace to the edge of the abyss and she is totally emotionally crippled. Owen also takes Daisy's death hard and can't cope with Grace's depression at the same time. He turns to drinking. After he returns home drunk very late one night, he has an explosive altercation with Grace. He then leaves his family, choosing to live in a rented room above the gin mill. In this tangle emotional miasma, Violet is left to try and deal with her grief on her own, even while the adults around her holds her responsible for the death of her sister and seemingly even the disintegration of her family. If not for her new friend, Stanley whom with she plays hooky from school with to fish and explore, Violet would have no support system. When an older widow befriends the two, they both get a modicum of the mothering they both need. During this same time period the famed evangelist Billy Sunday is coming to Scranton for a huge revival meeting. The town is building a temple to prepare for the special event and attendance is expected to be high. As a sort of Greek chorus in the background, Taylor includes comments from the church women in sections between several chapters. Preceded by some helpful homemaking advice from the time period, the chorus of comments that follow are from the widows and spinsters who are always there, doing things for the church and keeping track of everyone's business. Perhaps they mean well, bless their hearts, but perhaps they are spreading tales and making things worse. This is an incredibly well written novel that has the kind of historical accuracy and details that make reading historical novels a treasure. It is hard to believe based on the description, but this is also a novel of hope, grace, survival and even joy. Picked as a best summer book for 2014 by Publisher's Weekly, Barbara J. Taylor's Sing in the Morning, Cry at Night is not to be missed. Disclosure: My Kindle edition was courtesy of Akashic Book for review purposes. http://www.akashicbooks.com/ (  ) SheTreadsSoftly | Mar 21, 2016 | LibraryBHHS | Feb 22, 2016 | Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing.Sing In The Morning, Cry At Night is a story of how this family copes with the aftermath of a tragic accident. The oldest child, Daisy, is killed on the day of her baptism and the entire town has an opinion on what happened and who is to blame. In addition to blame placed by the community, the family’s inability to communicate with one another about their grief makes coping even harder than it has to be. Like all good historical fiction, I learned from this novel. It was interesting to see how hard life was for the common person back then and how dependent families were dependent on the coal mine owners for not only their livelihood, but also their housing. When a miner was killed or disabled, his family lost not only their loved one, but their home. For this reason, young boys were often sent to the mines at an early age as ‘replacement’ workers. I also got a glimpse into the evangelism of the early twentieth century. I had heard of Billy Sunday, but didn’t really know much about him, and I’m not even sure I realized he was a real person. Interestingly, the book I am reading now also talks of Billy Sunday. This one will make a good book club selection with topics ranging from coal mining conditions past and present, as well as how people deal with grief. You can find a Reader’s guide on the author’s website. I received a review copy of this book through the Library Thing Early Reviewers program and have written an honest review which appears above. (  ) Time2Read2 | Feb 23, 2015 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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