The Edge of Nowhere by CH Armstrong
The year is 1992 and Victoria Hastings Harrison Greene—reviled matriarch of a sprawling family—is dying.
After surviving the Oklahoma Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, Victoria refuses to leave this earth before revealing the secrets she’s carried for decades.
Once the child of a loving family during peaceful times, a shocking death shattered her life. Victoria had to come face to face with the harshness of the world. As the warm days of childhood receded to distant memory, Victoria learns to survive.
No matter what it takes.
To keep her family alive in an Oklahoma blighted by dust storms and poverty, Victoria makes choices—harsh ones, desperate ones. Ones that eventually made her into the woman her grandchildren fear and whisper about. Ones that kept them all alive. Hers is a tale of tragedy, love, murder, and above all, the conviction to never stop fighting.
My thoughts:
So where to begin…The Edge of Nowhere is a book you will want to have a good drink, tissues, light on and comfy clothes. Why do I say this? Because it is one hell of a page turner. The story will grab you from the first few pages and not let you go.
Victoria has had some rough times, more than her fair share but that made her a woman you either loved or feared. A love hate relationship at times. Yes, she could be have been softer around the edges and some choices might not have had to happen but what would you do to take care of your children? You might make some of the exact same choices.
The story is well written and the character’s pop from the page. You feel what they feel, see what they see and you want to make it all better for them. The depression is interesting all in itself but this story about real characters and real situations will have you wanting to take them into your heart and never let them go.
I would give this 6 stars if I could-it’s just that good.
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