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By Dayna Dunbar. “Aletta Honor is eight months pregnant and struggling to raise three children in Okay, Oklahoma, when a chance encounter with a strange woman reawakens the gift of second sight she had forgotten she had. Desperate for a way to pay the mortgage and feed her kids, Aletta goes into business as a psychic reader. As she helps her neighbors and friends make sense of their futures, Aletta slowly regains the confidence and strength that years of frustration and despair have eroded. But using her gift to divine the future ultimately brings Aletta face-to-face with painful memories from her own past. Dunbar's novel is both sensitively written and absorbing. Tough, self-effacing Aletta is an appealing heroine, and Dunbar's careful and understated writing keeps her novel from becoming a generic story of small-town female grit. The story is Aletta's, but in a device that echoes Aletta's clairvoyance, the perspective shifts frequently from Aletta to her sensitive, watchful children to her womanizing and abusive husband. This is an impressive first novel, with a warmhearted and tough heroine.” – Booklist
Softcover; 352 pages.
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