Fall of Marigolds, Susan Meissner
Fall of Marigolds, Susan Meissner
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Fall of Marigolds

Author: Susan Meissner

Narrator: Susan Meissner

Unabridged: 9 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/15/2015

Synopsis

A beautiful scarf, passed down through the generations, connects two women who learn that the weight of the world is made bearable by the love we give away....September 1911. On Ellis Island in New York Harbor, nurse Clara Wood cannot face returning to Manhattan, where the man she loved fell to his death in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Then, while caring for a fevered immigrant whose own loss mirrors hers, she becomes intrigued by a name embroidered onto the scarf he carries…and finds herself caught in a dilemma that compels her to confront the truth about the assumptions she’s made. Will what she learns devastate her or free her? September 2011. On Manhattan’s Upper West Side, widow Taryn Michaels has convinced herself that she is living fully, working in a charming specialty fabric store and raising her daughter alone. Then a long-lost photograph appears in a national magazine, and she is forced to relive the terrible day her husband died in the collapse of the World Trade Towers…the same day a stranger reached out and saved her. Will a chance reconnection and a century-old scarf open Taryn’s eyes to the larger forces at work in her life?

About Susan Meissner

Susan Meissner is a USA TODAY bestselling author with more than three-quarters of a million books in print in eighteen languages. Her novels have been named to numerous "best of" lists, including Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Goodreads, and Real Simple magazine. A former newspaper editor, Susan attended Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego and lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and their yellow Lab, Winston. When she's not writing, Susan loves long walks, good coffee, and reading bedtime stories to her grandchildren. Visit her online at susanmeissnerauthor.com; Instagram: @susanmeissnerauthor; Twitter: @SusanMeissner; Facebook: @susan.meissner; and Pinterest: @SusanMeissner.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Stephanie on April 18, 2014

The story set in 1911 was kind of ridiculous. The main character falls in love so many times and so easily that it is not believable. Her despair at losing someone who she barely knew can not compare to the heartache of the main character of the modern story. The modern story of a woman whose husban......more

Goodreads review by Debra on September 02, 2018

3.5 stars "The marigold insisted I not give up. They are very resilient flowers, you know.... They aren't fragrant like roses and sweet peas, but they can stand against odds that the more fragile flowers cannot.... They can bloom in the fall, even after a frost. Even after all other flowers have give......more

Goodreads review by Karen on March 01, 2025

I love when a story resonates with me as deeply as this one did. It is that feeling of being richer for just having read it. An interesting cast of characters with some predictability but overall a quick and enjoyable read. The story is about two women, their lives lived a century apart yet entwined......more

Goodreads review by Noeleen on May 03, 2016

This book tells the stories of two women after two horrific events in history and alternates in time periods one hundred years apart, 1911 and 2011. Clara and Taryn’s stories revolve around the aftermaths of events in New York, the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire in 1911 and the terrorist attacks of 9/11.......more

Goodreads review by Greta on October 28, 2022

I won’t be able to stop thinking of Taryn and Clara for a while. Taryn is a single mom in 2011 - she is a single mom because her husband died in the North Tower on 9/11 10 years earlier on the same day she found out she was pregnant. Clara is a young nurse in 1911- she wanted to get away from her sl......more

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