Facing the Dawn Book Review

 I was excited to read another book by this author because I have enjoyed the other books.  Facing the Dawn by Cynthia Ruchti is a stand alone novel. Mara is a facing the world by herself and trying to make it through the rough times while facing the dawn of a new day.

 

While her humanitarian husband Liam has been  bdigging wells in Africa, Mara Jacobs has been struggling. She knows she's supposed to feel a warm glow that her husband is nine time zones away, caring for widows and orphans. But the reality is that she is exhausted, working a demanding yet unrewarding job, trying to manage their three detention-prone kids, failing at her to-repair list, and fading like a garment left too long in the sun.

Then Liam's three-year absence turns into something more, changing everything and plunging her into a sunless grief. As Mara struggles to find her footing, she discovers that even when hope is tenuous, faith is fragile, and the future is unknown, we can be sure we are not forgotten . . . or unloved. With emotionally evocative prose that tackles tough topics with tenderness and hope, award-winning author Cynthia Ruchti invites you on a journey of the heart you won't soon forget.

I knew nothing about the book when I started so I wanted to figure it out as I read it. At first I was trying to figure out the home dynamic with Mara struggling to be a single parent even though she had a husband who was away for a four year well digging mission in another country. Mara was falling apart because she had no one to help her with the house or the kids.  She was trying to work while managing the house and her family and everything was falling apart including her.  She was trying to stay positive but it was very hard. Then it got even more hard because she got the call that her husband was killed and she wasn't sure what she was going to do to get through.  She was home from work but that meant that she wasn't getting paid and she was loosing hope. I knew that I couldn't put this book down at this point because I was totally connected to Mara and hoping that she pulls through and doesn't fall apart.  I know that this story is going to have lots of ups and downs so I was ready to keep going and find out what the next challenge was going to be. I hope that you check out this book and relate to trying to make it through to the next challenge.

*I received a copy of the book for my review but all opinions here are my own and I was not required to provide a positive review.