“Book Descriptions: SOUTH OF HEAVEN, set in Carthage, North Carolina, tells the story of two estranged sisters forced to sink or swim under the same leaky roof. Fern McQueen is at peace with her mid-life-self. She is content to watch over her son who is incapable of telling a lie, and her beloved aunt who carries secrets in a macramé purse while her mind slips away. But Fern's peace ends and her reckless past is resurrected when her husband's remains are found in Vietnam after he has been missing-in-action for twenty-three years. Meanwhile, her sister Leona's carefully crafted life in Raleigh begins to unravel when her doctor husband is accused of Medicaid fraud. To avoid having to tell her daughters the whole truth about their father's predicament and to escape the humiliation and snubs from an unforgiving social set, Leona loads up the Lexus and heads for home—a place she vowed to leave forever. While the Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky scandal plays out live on CNN, Fern and Leona's own secrets become front page news and the sisters find themselves at odds with their grown children who feel betrayed by a lifetime of lies. Miscommunications and slights, real and imagined, threaten to keep the sisters divided but in the end the inexplicable bond of family, a widowed preacher in search of his own lost faith, and an unlikely business venture—involving emu and home decorating—deliver rescue. SOUTH OF HEAVEN explores how the truth needs only a self-righteous nudge to become a lie, and how the dreaded truth can lead to unexpected consequences. This story is a testament to second chances.” DRIVE
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