The Elegant Gathering of White Snows - Softcover

Kris Radish

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1883523427 ISBN 13: 9781883523428

Publisher: Spinsters Ink, 2002

Synopsis

This novel exposes a lifetime of sorrows that have been held close to the hearts of a group of female friends. Meeting informally over several years, the women, like all women, have shared secrets, heartaches, losses, and emotional pain. When one confesses she has just discovered she is pregnant and that the baby is not her husband's, the confession pushes them to a place of action. Drawing on the passion and love that has bonded them together--and a bit of wine--they reach a decision that turns into a life-altering expression of personal growth and forgiveness. Their bold actions not only change their own lives, but the lives of men and women who hear about their journey and encounter them on the highway.

This is a story about love, friendship, and letting go, and also about how one step can change a world. It is an inspiring look at the power of the bonds women forge among themselves. It is a book full of the realities of life and the joys of challenge and change.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Eight Women on a Journey That Will Change Their Lives as Lovers, Wives, Mothers, Daughters, Friends
Just after midnight in a small town in Wisconsin, eight women begin walking together down a rural highway. Career women, housewives, mothers, divorcees, and one ex-prom queen, they are close friends who have been meeting every Thursday night for years, sharing food, wine, and their deepest secrets. But on this particular Thursday, Susan, Alice, Chris, Sandy, Gail, Mary, Joanne, and Janice decide to disappear from their own lives.
Their spontaneous pilgrimage attracts national attention and inspires other women from all across the country. As the miles fall away and the women forge ahead on their backroads odyssey--leaving small miracles in their wake--each of their histories unfolds, tales of shattered dreams and unexpected renewal, of thwarted love affairs and precious second chances.In luminous, heartwarming prose, Kris Radish deftly interweaves the women's intimate confessions into the story of their brave, history-making walk.
A breathtaking achievement, The Elegant Gathering of White Snows tells an incomparable tale of friendship and love, loss and liberation.

About the Author:

Kris Radish is the author of seven books. Her Bantam novels, The Elegant Gathering of White Snows, Dancing Naked at the Edge of Dawn, Annie Freeman’s Fabulous Traveling Funeral, The Sunday List of Dreams, and Searching for Paradise in Parker, PA, have been on bestseller and Book Sense 76 Selection lists.

She travels frequently throughout the country speaking about women’s issues, the value of female friendships, and the importance of personal empowerment, as well as the necessity for laughter, a terrific glass of wine, lying quietly in the summer grass, embracing kindness, following the path in your own heart and no one else’s, and having fun at almost all costs.

Kris lives in Wisconsin with her partner. She is joined occasionally by a college-age son and daughter—who appear when it’s time to wash clothes or eat a regular meal—and is happily cruising through life on her Yamaha 1200 Classic VStar, her Trek bicycle, a treadmill, a pair of orange-laced walking shoes, and with gallons of calcium and about a hundred notebooks for her novel, short-story, poetry, and journalism ideas.

She is also working on her sixth novel, The Shortest Distance Between Two Women, which Bantam will publish in 2009.

About this edition

• Publisher: Spinsters Ink
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1883523427
• ISBN 13: 9781883523428
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352