What if you’re the favorite child and grow up beautiful in a house of secrets? You’re a smart girl and learn quite young how to skirt your parents’ anger with a smile and outward compliance. Your rebellion comes late and turns in upon itself. Your admirers see a blue dress and a seductive impetuosity. Your brothers think you’re a fool.
It’s hard to protect an impetuous girl. Emotions can’t be bottled in a dress. Needing love trumps sticking to a plan. When the man you love loves something else another man will do. This other man will convince the first that you, Thankful Crenshaw, have worth beyond your curls and flirtatious giggle. You assumed William Weldon already knew that. You assumed he’d leave his new found badness in town and rescue you from your foolishness. You thought you’d eventually tell him things about Buck and Fred and all you’ve kept to yourself for years.
But here you are alone.
Pretending, always pretending, in your blue dress that you know what you’re doing, that your heart isn’t torn. You have a pretty smile and curls that droop in the desert. Everyone admires the picture you present and that is all.
*****Thankful, is the real highlight of the novel. She consistently makes very poor decisions but in the end, you can understand why she has made every last one of them. Amazon review
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7 responses to “Novel Inspiration: A Deserted Girl”
Great excerpt. I hope it does very well!
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Thanks, Brenda. I hope so too. Tell your saga loving friends all about it! 😉
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Yes, indeed! Happy Holidays!
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Same to you!
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Thankful is a complex person trapped in the social restrictions of her time. Every great character has a flaw – or two – or…? I think I love Thankful, Adrienne, and wish she had more opportunities to be her own person.
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I’m so glad to hear you feel something for dear Thankful. I love Thankful, too. My daughter and I joke saying she’s a mix of the two of us–and we live in a “modern” age. I don’t see her as autobiographical but maybe once I come into my own Thankful will see clear to do the same (but not for a good while–she is a Crenshaw after all which comes with a lot of baggage).
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