It's hard to believe that it is that time again but voting time is indeed here. We are voting for our March book selection and here are the two contenders this go round. Voting will continue through February 1st. Just a reminder that if there are any books you'd like to read and would like added to our list of choices, just leave your suggestion in the comments and I will add it.
Find Emma
By Steena Holmes
A mother’s near-obsessive devotion to her missing daughter
threatens to destroy more than one family.
Megan is the harried but happy
stay-at-home mother of three little girls living in a small town. Her life
implodes when her youngest daughter, Emma, disappears on her third
birthday.
Two years later, Megan is preparing to commemorate Emma’s
birthday and the anniversary of her kidnapping, compelled to keep her name alive
in the minds of her community and her family. Her commitment to Emma, however,
borderlines on obsession as she follows the families of little girls who look
like the daughter she lost.
Her obsession with finding Emma has distanced
Megan from both friends and family. Her two older daughters are resentful of her
relentless and fruitless search for their sister, and her husband pleads with
her to accept that Emma is gone so that the family can move on with their
lives.
Meanwhile, in the same small town, Jack is beginning to question
his wife’s secrecy about their adored granddaughter, Emmie. As Dottie slips into
dementia and becomes increasingly protective over Emmie, he can’t help but
wonder if there could be a dark secret that Dottie is keeping from
him.
Jack and Megan’s worlds finally intersect at the town carnival, when
Megan snaps a photograph of a little girl on her grandfather’s shoulders.
The Scavenger's Daughter
by Kay Bratt
Having survived torture and imprisonment during China’s Cultural Revolution,
Benfu escaped to find love with his compassionate and beautiful Calla Lily.
Together they build a fulfilling life around the most menial of jobs—Benfu’s
work collecting trash. As he sorts through the discards of others, he regularly
discovers abandoned children. With unwavering determination, he and Calli spend
decades creating a family of hand-picked daughters that help heal the sorrow and
brighten their modest home. But all is not perfect and when crisis threatens to
separate their family, Benfu—or possibly his band of headstrong daughters—must
find a way to overcome the biggest hardship yet.
Inspired by a true story, and set against the backdrop of a country in
transition, The Scavenger’s Daughters is a sweeping present day saga of
triumph in the face of hardship, and the unbreakable bonds of family against all
odds.
