num_pages: 432
description: To hear Beatrice Agnew tell it she entered the world with her mouth tightly shut. Just because she finds out shes dying doesnt mean she cant keep it that way. If any of her children have questions about their daddy and the choices she made after he abandoned them theyd best take it up with Jesus. Theres no room in Granny Bs house for regrets or hand-holding. Or so she thinks.Her granddaughter Evelyn Lester shows up on Beatrices doorstep anyway burdened with her own secret baggage. Determined to help her Granny B mend fences with her far-flung brood Evelyn turns her grandmothers heart and home inside out. Evelyns meddling uncovers a tucked-away box of old letters forcing the two women to wrestle with their past and present pain as they confront the truth Beatrice has worked a lifetime to hide.
language: English
title: A Long Time Comin'
publisher: Tyndale House Publishers