Paperback, 368 pages
Published April 30th 2019 by Bethany House Publishers
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In the wake of
WWII, a grieving fisherman submits a poem to a local newspaper: a rallying cry
for hope, purpose . . . and rocks. Send me a rock for the person you
lost, and I will build something life-giving. When the poem spreads farther
than he ever intended, Robert Bliss's humble words change the tide of a nation.
Boxes of rocks inundate the tiny, coastal Maine town, and he sets his calloused
hands to work, but the building halts when tragedy strikes.
Decades later, Annie Sawyer is summoned back to Ansel-by-the-Sea when she
learns her Great-Uncle Robert, the man who became her refuge during the hardest
summer of her youth, is now the one in need of help. What she didn't anticipate
was finding a wall of heavy boxes hiding in his home. Long-ago memories of
stone ruins on a nearby island trigger her curiosity, igniting a fire in her
anthropologist soul to uncover answers.
She joins forces with the handsome and mysterious harbor postman, and all her
hopes of mending the decades-old chasm in her family seem to point back to the
ruins. But with Robert failing fast, her search for answers battles against
time, a foe as relentless as the ever-crashing waves upon the sea.
Rebecca’s Review
5 STARS!!!
"He said he
loves you, that it'll be all right, that life is big . . . and God is
bigger."
"Whose Waves These Are" clears generational speed
bumps with the ease of a stallion; its poetic prose is enchanting, the
spiritual depth and metaphorical descriptions compelling the most seasoned of
readers to take pause.
Using the lives of twin brothers as a foundation stone, the
author builds her story; and it's a story like none other, for Robert and Roy
Bliss are unparalleled. Their lives diverge from the tiny town of Ansel by the
Sea when the call for war beckons one and not the other. In the end, or it
could be viewed as the beginning, it's grief that completes what life could not
accomplish.
Years later, a granddaughter reappears in the tiny Maine
town, apparently her beloved GrandBob needs her. As Annie Bliss uncovers the
fascinating layers of her family history, she learns that "every wave . .
. is a story" and "there's a whole lotta light . .. when the Lord
makes His face to shine upon Thee"; yet, Annie can only wonder what kind
of stories the waves will write for her.
"Build".
I received a copy of this book from the author and publisher.
The opinions stated above are entirely my own.
Rebecca is a graduate of Bryan College with a degree in Christian Education and is currently serving at the First Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church in Gastonia, North Carolina as the Director of Children's Ministry. With over 30 years of experience in her field, she has had many opportunities to use her love of reading and writing in creative ways across the generations. A wife, mother of four "nearly" grown children, and grandmother to four beautiful grandchildren, Rebecca has been able to return to her love of reading and more recently reviewing, with a renewed passion for the "beauty of story".
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