Finding Amos, ReShonda Tate Billingsley
Finding Amos, ReShonda Tate Billingsley
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Finding Amos

Author: ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Bernice L. McFadden, J. D. Mason

Narrator: Kevin Free

Unabridged: 7 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/13/2015


Synopsis

Three bestselling authors join talents in a multi-dimensional novel that illustrates the importance of love, family, and forgiveness. Three daughters, connected only through their relationship to Amos, a now elderly ex-musician struggling with Alzheimer' s disease, find their lives intertwining as a car accident reunites them at Amos' s bedside-- bringing some long-buried issues to light. Cass has little self-worth after Amos left her as a child. It is only through her cake-decorating business and encouragement from her best friend that she begins to reconstruct her life, eventually realizing she has enough room in her heart to forgive him. Love-starved Toya doesn' t want to emulate others' failed relationships. As she begins to strengthen her morals and stops seducing married men-- she is surprised to discover that she shares some similarities with Amos. Tomiko is a beautiful but lonely woman. Despite having a successful career in writing, she attempts to keep aspects of herself and her past buried as a coping mechanism. However, new love reawakens her faith in both herself and men. As Cass, Toya, and Tomiko reconcile their feelings of abandonment, Amos reflects on his life and the decisions he made. And by revisiting their painful pasts, they all find ways to reconnect with each other and live with compassion.

About Reshonda Tate Billingsley

ReShonda Tate Billingsley's #1 nationally bestselling novels include Let the Church Say Amen, I Know I've Been Changed, and Say Amen, Again, winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work. Her collaboration with Victoria Christopher Murray has produced four hit novels, Sinners & Saints, Friends & Foes, A Blessing and a Curse, and Fortune & Fame. BET released a movie in 2013 based on ReShonda's book Let the Church Say Amen in which she had a minor role. She also had a role in the made-for-TV movie The Secret She Kept based on her book of the same title.


Reviews

I picked this up and I just couldn't put it down. It was so good. And having been written by three different wonderful ladies there was never a moment when the writing felt different it was seamless. Reading this book touched on some personal father issues, but it was funny how true to life the char......more

Goodreads review by Teresa

"They were soul and funk, rhythm and blues, jazz and boogaloo all roll up into a sound that even the angels couldn't help dance to." Is one of my favorite lines in this book. I fell in love with Bernice's with the reading of "Sugar". And most of the time she hasn't disappointed me. I knew real life......more

4 stars - Oct. 20, 2015 Reads much better now than previously 3 stars - Dec. 9, 2012 Because this was written by 3 authors, I really wish I had the option of rating based on chapters and who wrote what. While some characters were well developed, others weren't and that was disappointing.......more

Goodreads review by Rene

Just a great read. Enjoy every minute of it.......more

Finding Amos was truly a good read for me. Amos put music before his own girls. And he paid for that. He became ill and lonely.but in the end his daughters forgave him. I would recommend this book to readers.......more