This is the second book that I’ve read by Sherri Reynolds. Rapture of Cannan had been part of Oprah’s Book Club and that’s how I was first introduced to this author. The Firefly Cloak was very good and looked at three women in a family. Sheila leaves her children alone at a campsite when Tessa Lynn is eight and Travis is three. She writes her mother, Lil’s, phone number on Travis’ back so that the authorities who find them call their grandparents to come and get them.
Seven years later Tessa Lynn goes looking for her mother. She has heard that she works in a town two hours away and goes to find her to tell her thather brother, Travis, has died. For a long time we don’t know how Travis has died, but it is central to the story that Tessa Lynn and Lil are grieving. Tessa Lynn finds her mother and tries to speak with her but her mother leaves and runs away before she is able to tell her the news.
Lil and Tessa Lynn try to heal and form a new life with the two of them. During this time Sheila is trying to heal and find a way in herself to brave facing her daughter again. Sheila has lived a hard life of drugs and prostitution and has a lot of cleaning up to do before she feels able to see her daughter and her church going mother again.
The relationships between these three women are strong, even when Sheila is not there. There is a lot of grief and sadness and trying to find who they are and what they mean in the world. This was a good stong book that I enjoyed quite a bit.
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