num_pages: 494
description: While I sat there thinking how that swings sound was an unnerving creak that hadnt changed in thirty-some-odd years and was a sound I would forever associate with the father of my childhood I couldnt have imagined how everything I held to be true about that father would soon change. The discoveries to come were simply beyond anyones wildest imagination. from Hush Swing Hush Laurie Parker beloved childrens book writer/illustrator and author of The Matchstick Cross and Yonder Breaks the Morning treats readers to a smartly-woven saga with Hush Swing Hush her third novel. The wordsmith has used her unique southern voice to craft a distinctive and memorable story peppered with humorous and touchingly-drawn characters. Dee Loder a forty-year-old divorce and school librarian in Meridian Mississippi has a lot on her plate in the spring of 2008. First and foremost she is dealing with the ongoing challenges of being the mom of a special-needs child an eleven-year-old boy with Asperger Syndrome whose dad is a loudmouthed high-school football coach and little help with their son. Then when her book-hoarding father passes away suddenly Dee a book lover herself is left to deal with both the memories of a man she never really knew as well as the overwhelming number of boxes he crammed into the Craftsman-style bungalow in which she grew up. When a handsome man named Leland Dixon arrives in town from Dallas with a guitar and a gallant willingness to help her out things start to get dicey for this mother of a misfit and daughter of a mystery. Before she knows it life begins dishing out a heaping helping of bombshells and she is hit head-on with the heavy realization that she may ultimately be rewriting more than just her own history. With a highly original premise and a twist readers will not see coming Hush Swing Hush is a thought provoking tale of long-held secrets misplaced accusations and most of all a mothers love. Learn more about the author at www.laurieparkerwriter.com.
language: English
title: Hush, Swing, Hush
publisher: Laurie Parker