Morning is a Long Time Coming, Bette Greene
Morning is a Long Time Coming, Bette Greene
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Morning is a Long Time Coming

Author: Bette Greene

Narrator: Dale Dickey

Unabridged: 8 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/08/2013

Categories: Fiction


Synopsis

This superbly moving sequel reveals what happens when 18-year-old Patty Bergen leaves her Southern Bible-belt town for Paris. In a tender love affair with a Frenchman, she begins to overcome the abuse that ruined her childhood-and to understand her conflicting feelings of joy and anger.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Angie on August 07, 2009

In the spirit of summer reading lists of yore, I thought I'd focus on another book that was on one of the many lists I went through. Or rather the sequel to one of those books--MORNING IS A LONG TIME COMING--the sequel to Summer of My German Soldier. Reading Summer of My German Soldier kind of wreck......more

Goodreads review by Julianna on March 17, 2011

Reviewed for THC Reviews "4.5 stars" Although there doesn't seem to be an official series title, Morning Is a Long Time Coming is a sequel to Bette Greene's modern classic, young-adult novel, Summer of My German Soldier. Since that book had a decidedly unsatisfying ending, I was glad to see that Ms.......more

Goodreads review by Josiah on April 02, 2024

"All I know is that growing up hurts too much. Growing down is what I'd really like to do. Be little enough again so it would be perfectly natural to be protected from the wind and the rain—and the world." —Patty Bergen, Morning Is a Long Time Coming, P. 84 "But don't go thinking that I'm critical o......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on August 10, 2018

I was a little disappointed in this sequel to Summer of My German Soldier, which I loved. As with many other sequels I've read, this novel seemed to lack direction and the first half of the book was very much a rehash of the first. The central character, Patty Bergen, was not as sympathetic a heroin......more

Goodreads review by Helen on February 05, 2021

I have VERY mixed emotions about this book..... on one hand I do not agree with the plot cycle whatsoever. Why was so much time spent on Patty in America? Greene spent a third of the book on one month and the rest was around 4 months. Then it all went whooosshhh and now it’s over. I think homegirl g......more