Rich in Love

Name: Rich in Love
Brand: Penguin Random House
Availability: InStock
Author: Josephine Humphreys
ISBN: 9781598877106

Author: Josephine Humphreys

Narrator: Josephine Humphreys

Abridged: 2 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 09/17/2008

Categories: Fiction, Women, Family Life, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

At the age of seventeen, Lucille Odom finds herself in the middle of an unexpected domestic crisis. As she helps guide her family through its discontent, Lucille discovers in herself a woman rich in wisdom, rich in humor, and rich in love.

About The Author

Josephine Humphreys is the author of Dreams of Sleep, which won the 1985 Hemingway Foundation Award for a first work of fiction; of Rich in Love, made into a major motion picture; and of The Fireman's Fair (all available from Penguin).

Reviews

Goodreads review by Gregory

“On an afternoon two years ago my life veered from its day-in day-out course and became for a short while the kind of life that can be told as a story—that is, one in which events appear to have meaning. Before, there had been nothing worth telling the world.” Such is the opening line of quite possib......more

Goodreads review by Peggy

This is a wonderful book. Rich in Love is set near Charleston, SC in the 1980s and narrated by Lucille, a 17-year old who is wise beyond her years. Humphreys is a lyrical writer, evoking the confusion and excitement of being a teenager, describing Lucille's surroundings in beautiful prose and tellin......more

Goodreads review by Gertie

LOVE. The first time I read this I was the same age as the protagonist and it meant so much to me!! *wipes tear. Ah no I’m being dramatic, butttt going back to read it again now GOSH what a joy. Get to it, it’s just so absorbing and funny and so intelligent. You’ll be nodding along, giggling away an......more