Mavis - Softcover

Marshall, Brenda K.

3.45

20 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0449225712 ISBN 13: 9780449225714

Publisher: Fawcett, 1997

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"FASCINATING . . . A memorable central character and a noteworthy debut ."
--Gail Godwin

Mavis Schmidt Holmstead has always been the strong one. The oldest of six sisters who grew up on a North Dakota farm, Mavis has spent a lifetime comforting and cooking, mending and managing.

Now a man is dead, and the confessed murderer is Mavis--widow, mother, grandmother, matriarch.

Soon her sisters gather together, not only to support Mavis, but to discover the truth. She must be lying about the murder, but why? To answer that question, buried secrets are exposed, revealing shocking truths that are both harrowing and redemptive. . . .

"ENGAGING . . . REFRESHING . . . Marshall has a down-home sensibility enlivened by a wicked wit."
--Chicago Tribune

"Resonates with echoes of Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres."
--Kirkus Reviews

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Review:

In this first novel, Brenda Marshall presents Mavis Schmidt Holmstead. The oldest of six daughters in a North Dakota farm family, she has been the real parental figure in the lives of her five younger siblings. Having sacrificed most of her young life to her sisters, she is forced to make an even bigger sacrifice in middle age when sister Irene is killed in a car accident caused by Irene's drunken husband Jack, who is murdered in turn. Mavis knows who the killer is but confesses to the crime. The aftermath of that act and its effect on the sisters she raised is the focus of Mavis.

About the Author:

Brenda K. Marshall grew up in North Dakota and now lives in Michigan.

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