The Memory Weaver, Jane Kirkpatrick
The Memory Weaver, Jane Kirkpatrick
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The Memory Weaver

Author: Jane Kirkpatrick

Narrator: Erin Moon, Suzanne Toren, Alma Cuervo

Unabridged: 10 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/01/2015


Synopsis

Eliza Spalding Warren was just a child when she was taken hostage by the Cayuse Indians during a massacre in 1847. Now the young mother of two children, Eliza faces a different kind of dislocation; her impulsive husband wants them to make a new start in another territory, which will mean leaving her beloved home and her departed mother's grave--and returning to the land of her captivity. Eliza longs to know how her mother, an early missionary to the Nez Perce Indians, dealt with the challenges of life with a sometimes difficult husband and with her daughter's captivity. When Eliza is finally given her mother's diary, she is stunned to find that her own memories are not necessarily the whole story of what happened. Can she lay the dark past to rest and move on? Or will her childhood memories always hold her hostage? Based on true events, The Memory Weaver is New York Times bestselling author Jane Kirkpatrick's latest literary journey into the past, where threads of western landscapes, family, and faith weave a tapestry of hope inside every pioneering woman's heart. Readers will find themselves swept up in this emotional story of the memories that entangle us and the healing that awaits us when we bravely unravel the threads of the past.

About Jane Kirkpatrick

Jane Kirkpatrick is the author of twenty books and is a two-time winner of the WILLA Literary Award. Her first novel, A Sweetness to the Soul, won the Western Heritage Wrangler Award, an honor given to writers such as Barbara Kingsolver and Larry McMurtry. For twenty-six years she "homesteaded" with her husband Jerry on a remote ranch in Eastern Oregon.  She now lives with Jerry, and her two dogs and one cat on small acreage in Central Oregon while she savors the value of friendship over fame.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kelvey on February 08, 2016

I’ve got four words for you: Go read this book! I highly enjoyed The Memory Weaver, and I personally think that Jane Kirkpatrick is greatly talented. She is wonderful at weaving words in such a way that history comes alive in her characters. The history behind the Spalding family has always fascinat......more

Goodreads review by Carole on September 26, 2015

Reviewed at The Power of Words: [URL not allowed] For historical fiction that focuses on America’s pioneer years, Jane Kirkpatrick is outstanding. The Memory Weaver is based on the true account of Eliza Spaulding, daughter of pioneer missionaries Henry and Eliza Spaulding, who ministered to the N......more

Goodreads review by Melodie on May 04, 2020

I don't read a lot of inspirational/christian fiction. Frequently I find myself being hit over my figurative head with the author's personal dogma. I did not know that this was particular author's chosen genre. I found myself engaged with the story and characters within a few pages. While it became......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on September 01, 2015

Living in the Pacific Northwest, I took a special interest in Jane Kirkpatrick's new novel, The Memory Weaver, based on the true story of Eliza Spaulding, daughter of real-life missionaries Henry and Eliza Spaulding. Background: The elder Spauldings, along with Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, made the......more