false 60489 8 Nadine Morgan travels the world as a journalist, covering important events, following dangerous leads, and running from anything that might tie her down. Since an assignment in Cape Town ended in tragedy and regret, Nadine has not returned to South Africa, or opened her heart– until she hears the story of Jason Irving. Jason, an American student, was beaten to death by angry local youths at the height of the apartheid era. Years later, his mother is told that Jason’s killers have applied for amnesty. Jason’s parents pack their bags and fly from Nantucket to Cape Town. Filled with rage, Jason’s mother resolves to fight the murderers’ pleas for forgiveness. As Nadine follows the Irvings to beautiful, ghost-filled South Africa, she is flooded with memories of a time when the pull toward adventure and intrigue left her with a broken heart. Haunted by guilt and a sense of remorse, and hoping to lose herself in her coverage of the murder trial, Nadine grows closer to Jason’s mother as well as to the mother of one of Jason’s killers- with profound consequences. In a country both foreign and familiar, Nadine is forced to face long-buried demons, come to terms with the missing pieces of her own family past, and learn what it means to truly love and to forgive. 1370973 2007 Forgive Me: A Novel total:427|5:58|4:156|3:140|2:60|1:13| 427 1467 662 122 4 1 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 19 20:12:33 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 07 14:22:02 -0700 2007
I was very much into the book--but have to agree with some goodreaders' reviews--most of the characters are just sketches, rather than juicy, sink you teeth into, 'flesh & blood' people.
The bo...more...]]> 3 0 false true Fri Dec 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 22 23:36:24 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 23:42:04 -0800 2009 I teetered between 3 & 4 stars finally landing on 3. I was disappointed in the story's characters. Nadine is interesting, but not very sympathetic a person. I had no idea why she was so awful to her dad and her stepmother who were RIDICULOUS caricatures ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jun 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 19:56:59 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 20:18:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:50:59 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:50:59 -0800 2009 In her first two novels, Sleep Toward Heaven and How to Be Lost, Amanda Eyre Ward asked questions about loss and forgiveness: Is salvation possible to achieve? What are the costs of achieving it? Does everyone deserve it? Forgive Me, as the title suggests, blatantly explores these questions and othe...

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“Ten years after Nadine’s departure, South Africa was tasting a fragile peace. The city before Nadine had ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Feb 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 03 18:18:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 03 18:25:49 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Nov 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 15:22:38 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 09:08:33 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Feb 15 19:58:36 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 20:00:55 -0800 2009
This one had its ups and downs. The end was rather silly in my opinion and not well connected to the rest of the book. I found it basically implausible. In addition, a new narrator introduced halfway tells a story that is rather disconnected from the rest of the book that I f...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 15:08:13 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 07:54:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Aug 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 21 09:01:07 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 27 09:37:57 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Jul 08 09:29:29 -0700 2008 Mon May 12 14:08:54 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 08 09:29:29 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Mar 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 09 22:33:24 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 09 22:34:01 -0700 2008
Protagonist Nadine Morgan is a journalist who specializes in covering dangerous events. After she is mugg...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 22:33:29 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 22:37:02 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 24 09:16:16 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 24 09:16:36 -0700 2007 Disgrace, Forgive Me is a tale of violence, redemption, sorrow and forgiveness in immediate post-apartheid South Africa. The central character of the novel is a globe-trotting journalist named Nadine who thrives on getting The Story and always being on the move, thus avoiding re...more...]]> 1 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 11:09:44 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 11:13:22 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43409...).

My theory is this is a very early work by Ms Ward and she let it get published just t...more...]]> 4 0 false true Sun May 31 16:14:33 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 19:00:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 08 17:20:22 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 08 17:28:01 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 08 08:39:50 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 23 07:07:46 -0700 2007 The story is of a journalist, Nadine, who lives a fast-paced life travelin...more...]]>