num_pages: 368
description: Julia DeSmit can't wait for her life to begin. After her mother leaves when Julia is nine years old she's raised by an unassuming gentle father and a saintly matriarchal grandmother until her father dies just as Julia is becoming a young adult. On the cusp of womanhood Julia feels jaded by her circumstances and longs for a new identity. College seems like the perfect place to start over. But when Julia makes a mistake that will change her life forever she returns to her grandmother's farm defeated and convinced of her own worthlessness. Only through the gentle prodding of her loving grandmother does Julia begin to accept the imprint her childhood has left on her life and look for hope in a loving God who longs to make all things new.
language: English
title: After the Leaves Fall
publisher: Tyndale House Publishers