How I Came to Sparkle Again, Kaya McLaren
How I Came to Sparkle Again, Kaya McLaren
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How I Came to Sparkle Again
A Novel

Author: Kaya McLaren

Narrator: Tanya Eby

Unabridged: 9 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/02/2012

Categories: Fiction, Women


Synopsis

Jill Anthony spent her youth in the ski town of Sparkle, Colorado, but more than a decade has passed since she left. Then a devastating tragedy, coupled with the worst kind of betrayal, makes her want to run away, but the only place she knows to go is home: Sparkle.Lisa Carlucci looks in the mirror one morning and realizes that she no longer wants to treat her body like a Holiday Inn. She’s going to hold out for love. The only problem is, love might come in the form of her ski-bum best friend, who lives next door with his ski-bum friends in a trailer known as “The Kennel.”Cassie Jones, at age ten, has lost her mother and no longer believes in anything. Her only solace comes from the messages she believes her deceased mother is sending her through the heart-shaped rocks they once collected in the streams and hills of Sparkle.Three people at the crossroads of heartbreak and healing. Three lives that will be changed one winter in Sparkle, Colorado. One tender, funny, tear-jerking novel that you won’t soon forget.

About Kaya McLaren

Kaya McLaren is also author of On the Divinity of Second Chances and Church of the Dog. She lives and teaches third and fourth graders on the east slope of Snoqualmie Pass in Washington State. When Kaya’s not working, she likes to telemark ski, sit in hot springs, moonlight hike, and play in lakes with her dog, Big Cedar.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Becky on June 19, 2015

To be honest, I almost abandoned this book after 20 pages because I thought it was a Christian fiction book. There was so much talk about God and people losing faith. It was so heavy on faith and it turned me off. I checked online to see if it is a Christian fiction book and it is not, it's actually......more

Goodreads review by Jeanie on January 02, 2013

This novel is a delightfully warm and wonderful book. It is a beautiful story of friendship, romance, recovery and fun. The four main characters are each facing a demoralizing loss. Six weeks after a miscarriage, Jill hears her husband making love to another woman in their bedroom, and in a shocked......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on February 19, 2014

I enjoyed this for the most part. It was pretty predictable, but was still an enjoyable read. It was very sad at times and got me to cry here and there. Overall though I think it went on a bit too long for me. I thought the Mormon religion was given a bit of a bad rap in this book. Being a member an......more