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The Painted Table - Softcover

Reay, Katherine

 
9781401689704: The Painted Table
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1401689701 ISBN 13: 9781401689704
Verlag: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

The Norwegian table, a century-old heirloom ingrained with family memory, has become a totem of a life Saffee would rather forget—a childhood disrupted by her mother’s mental illness.

Saffee does not want the table. By the time she inherits the object of her mother’s obsession, the surface is thick with haphazard layers of paint and heavy with unsettling memories.

After a childhood spent watching her mother slide steadily into insanity, painting and re-painting the ancient table, Saffee has come to fear that seeds of psychosis may lie dormant within her. She must confront her mother’s torment if she wants to defend herself against it.

Traversing four generations over the course of a century, The Painted Table is a beautiful portrait of inherited memory. It is a sprawling narrative affirmation that a family artifact—like a family member—can bear the marks of one’s past . . . as well as intimations of one’s redemption.

“This difficult but beautiful story of hurt and healing, desperation and hope, offers an intriguing view inside the world of the mentally ill and their loved ones.” —Publishers Weekly

“Describes a descent into darkness [and a] redemptive ascent into light . . . [The Painted Table is a] deeply moving experience.” —Melvin W. Hanna, PhD, author of Mood Food: Nourishing Your God Given Emotions

"[C]ompelling . . . [The Painted Table] point[s] readers toward redemption, the kind that removes all the layers of anesthetic we use to try—and fail—to numb our pain, and replaces them with beauty that can come only through grief and surrender." —ChristianityToday.com

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Suzanne Field, a graduate of the University of Minnesota, has taught English as a Second Language in China, Ukraine, and Hawaii. She has also been a magazine editor and home-school teacher. She and her husband have five children and divide their time between Kansas and Hawaii where she is a tutor and mentor.

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The Painted Table

By Suzanne Field

Thomas Nelson

Copyright © 2013 Suzanne Field
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4016-8970-4

Contents

The Beginning..............................................................1
Prologue...................................................................3
1. The Draft Notice........................................................17
2. War.....................................................................27
3. San Francisco...........................................................30
4. Shore Leave.............................................................35
5. The Baby Sister.........................................................40
6. The Homecoming..........................................................48
7. St. Paul................................................................50
8. The Highway Man.........................................................57
9. Discontent..............................................................60
10. The Table..............................................................66
11. Remodeled..............................................................71
12. The First Coat.........................................................76
13. Psychology.............................................................80
14. Up and Down............................................................84
15. The Sewing Club........................................................88
16. Tree of Life, Tree of Evil.............................................93
17. Nancy Drew.............................................................97
18. Palm Sunday............................................................101
19. April..................................................................106
20. Mr. Mason..............................................................111
21. Voices on the Stairs...................................................114
22. Rags to Riches.........................................................119
23. Gone with the Wind.....................................................124
24. Cottonwood Point.......................................................129
25. Respectfully Yours.....................................................136
26. Speaking Truth.........................................................140
27. The Catapult...........................................................145
28. What's in a Name?......................................................151
29. Sapphira...............................................................156
30. Thanksgiving...........................................................162
31. Rotten Apples..........................................................169
32. Taste and See..........................................................173
33. Jack...................................................................182
34. The Valentine..........................................................189
35. The Cocoon.............................................................193
36. Loyalty................................................................196
37. Floating Free..........................................................201
38. The Wedding............................................................212
39. Legacy.................................................................218
40. Weeds..................................................................228
41. Softball Religion......................................................231
42. Girl Talk..............................................................236
43. The Wooden Box.........................................................242
44. Newly Wed..............................................................247
45. Tendril Tangle.........................................................252
46. Joann's Notebooks......................................................256
47. Stuffed Ribs...........................................................260
48. Rainbow Heart..........................................................266
49. The Wedding Gift.......................................................271
50. The Stroke.............................................................275
51. Christmas..............................................................278
52. Waiting................................................................289
53. Kite Lessons...........................................................294
54. Redeemed...............................................................299
Reading Group Guide........................................................309


CHAPTER 1

The Draft Notice


1943

Joann looks down two stories from behind her gauze-curtainedwindow. She watches absently as a twenty-ton behemoth snorts,grinds gears, and backs onto the sidewalk below. She often standshere, hoping to catch a cool breeze and eager for the first glimpse of herhusband returning from the dairy. Even when it's too early, just seeingthe street that will carry his ten-year-old Chevrolet comforts her.

Two sooty figures hasten to guide a shiny chute toward an openbasement window. The beast revs, squeals, and tips its midsection highinto the air. Black lumps of coal rumble, plummet, then crash throughthe chute. Only when lusty screams come from the nearby bedroomdoes Joann return to the moment and realize that the scene below isodd. A coal delivery in June? This war! Nothing is normal anymore.

She rushes into the bedroom to shut the window beyond the crib.The frightened face of her almost-two-year-old pushes against theslats. Her mother snatches her up, holds her awkwardly.

"Don't be afraid, Saffee. It's just coal to keep Daddy's littlegirl warm when winter comes." She speaks without mother-to-babynuance. The screaming does not abate. Joann places her on the doublebed, sits down nearby, and bounces. "Sa-ffee, Sa-ffee, Sa-ffee." Thebaby is not quieted.

She stops the bouncing and tries reasoning. "Maybe the coal menhave to come now. They might be off to war by winter, just like ...just like ... your daddy."

The next afternoon when the child awakes, she screams again.Sweat-soaked, she buries her head in her...

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Verlag
Thomas Nelson Publishers
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1401689701
ISBN 13 
9781401689704
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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