G556 Book Review of Visiting the Sins by Melanie Denman
Name of Book: Visiting the Sins Author: Melanie Denman ISBN: 978-1-59571-926-3 Publisher: Word Association Publishers Type of book: mother/daughter, East Texas, faith, relationships, beauty pageants, sinning, wealth, fitting in, small community, sacrifices, 1930s to 2000s, trying to get along, family Year it was published: 2015 Summary: In her riotous debut novel, which was awarded the 2014 bronze IPPY for Regional Southern Fiction, Melanie Denman probes the silent sacrifices of motherhood with unflinching honesty and warmhearted amusement. Set in the Bible Belt of Deep East Texas, Visiting the Sins is a darkly funny story about mothers and daughters, naked ambition, elusive redemption, and all the torment it's possible to inflict in the name of family. Down through the decades, the lofty social aspirations of the feisty but perennially dissatisfied Wheeler women - Pokey, the love-starved, pistol-packing matriarch; Rebanelle, the frosty former beauty queen turn...