Show Me a Kindness

Name: Show Me a Kindness
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Nancy Brandon
ISBN: 9781536615302

Author: Nancy Brandon

Narrator: Shannon McManus, Bahni Turpin, Will Damron, Todd Haberkorn

Unabridged: 7 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 02/07/2017

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Psychological, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

As America plunges into the Great Depression, Marthanne Hendrix finds herself in rural Vidalia, Georgia, with no memory of how she got there.Bewildered when the neighbors call her Oma, Marthanne is haunted by memories of another life—and another self. With the help of Comfort, a domestic worker living with her own tremendous loss, Marthanne discovers that Oma is another distinct personality inhabiting her body. In a time when mental illness is taboo, Marthanne and Oma’s simple, small-town life is fraught with complexity and danger.With gossip running rampant, Marthanne and Oma will do anything to avoid their greatest fear: commitment to an insane asylum. Only by relying on Comfort’s kindness can they navigate their uncertain future. Friendship becomes sanctuary, and the quest for an ordinary life leads to an extraordinary bond.Deeply moving and exquisitely wrought, Show Me a Kindness is a haunting novel of love, survival, and hiding in plain sight.

About Nancy Brandon

Nancy Brandon grew up in middle Georgia and graduated from the University of Georgia. She is the author of the Amazon bestseller Dunaway's Crossing, which was the finalist for the 2013 Georgia Author of the Year Award. She has taught college English for the past twenty-five years in Savannah, where she lives with her husband and two sons.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jen

*I received a copy from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.* Show Me a Kindness tells the story of a woman with multiple personality disorder, Marthanne/Oma. What makes it interesting is that it is set during the Depression in 1930, and mental illness was very taboo at the time. I really empa......more

Goodreads review by Carol

I found this a touching book filled with interesting, unique characters.......more

Goodreads review by Kimberly

*Thanks to Netgalley for letting me read this book for a honest review* This book, man did this book make me feel. Considering the era this book takes place in I had to set aside my current beliefs and how I feel about certain topics to fully immerse myself into this book. Once I did I was able to fu......more

Goodreads review by Kerry

Normally, I don't read historical fiction, but this novel really pulled me in and provided a unique perspective on life during the Great Depression. Show Me a Kindness explores stigmas against mental illness and homosexuality in America during the Great Depression, and calls the reader to question i......more

Goodreads review by Jenna

This is one of the best books that I have read this year! Marthanne & Oma suffer an extremely traumatic experience (more than one, really) and up in a small town on the way to Macon. You immediately feel at home in this small town and recognize several people (same people everywhere, just different n......more