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Welcome
As Duane Coulter lies unconscious and dying, his family gathers at the hospital. Separated by time, distance, and a fear of delving into their past, his children approach this reunion of siblings with ambivalence. While they have never questioned their love for each other and for their mother, their desire to live in the present and bury old hurts is strong.
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About the Authors
Lark Pogue and Drew Carpenter are brother and sister who are first-time authors. Missing Ingredients, while based loosely on their lives, is a work of fiction. Lark, age fifty-eight, is a Licensed Vocational Nurse. Drew, fifty-four, has been employed in the airline industry for the past twenty-two years. Both live in small towns north of San Antonio, in the Texas hill country. While writing this novel, the story of a dysfunctional family, Lark and Drew realized that they had experienced the dysfunction and abuse in their own childhoods somewhat differently based on gender. They feel that exploring these differences gives the book a symmetry that is not found in similar works. Read more
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Excerpt from the Book
The tree was old, and its branches reached almost to the ground. It was a live oak, and it had grown, as they tend to do in the South, with limbs sprawling in every direction rather than straight up to the sky. It was bent and twisted, with bulging arthritic joints, a huge trunk, and deeply textured bark. And in its shade, this July morning was almost cool. Read more
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$13.95 / Perfectbound
ISBN: 9781608442072
272 pages
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