A Good Home
Publisher: BPS Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: [Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781927483565; 9781927483572; 9781927483480
Subjects: Homes and haunts; Jamaicans; Biography; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY; Personal Memoirs; Historical; HISTORY; State & Local; General; Homes
Description: ?A Good Home will delight your soul and touch your heart. There is magic in these words!??DEBRA USHER, President and Editor-in-Chief, Arabella Magazine.?Cynthia Reyes? glass is almost always half full, but ours, as we read her uplifting story, brims over.??COLIN McALLISTER and JUSTIN RYAN, www.colinandjustin.tv. A Good Home is an addictive read, a profoundly emotional book about the author?s early life in rural Jamaica, her move to urban North America, and her trips back home, all told through vivid descriptions of the unique homes she has lived in? from a tiny pink house in Jamaica and a mountainside cabin near Vancouver to the historic Victorian farmhouse she lives in today, surrounded by neighbors who share spicy Malaysian noodles and seafood, Greek pastries and roast lamb, and Italian tomato sauce and wine (really strong wine). Full of lovingly drawn characters and vividly described places, A Good Home takes the reader through deeply moving stories of marriage, children, the death of parents, and an accident that takes its high-flying author down a humbling notch. Its pages sparkle with stories and reflections on home as:? A foundation on which to build connections with children, relatives, and friends? A place to celebrate the joys of elegant design, overflowing gardens (except for the wisteria vine, which cannot be coaxed into blooming), and the sharing of good food? A wise teacher, showing us who we really were? and who we really are When this brave, clear-eyed, and honest book returns, full circle, to the way it began, readers will want to read it all over again.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Copyright; Contents; Prologue: A House Imagined; Part One: Island Home; One: The Little Pink House; Two: Grandmother's House; Three: Paradise Lost; Four: A House Full of Women; Five: Angels Passing Through; Six: Stick a Pin There; Seven: A Home of Our Own; Eight: I See My Grandmother Differently; Nine: Seed Money; Ten: Afternoon Tea; Eleven: Tempest in a Tea Cup; Part Two: Northern Home; Twelve: Inhaling Ice; Thirteen: A Good Time; Fourteen: Mountain Cabin; Fifteen: Enter, Hamlin; Sixteen: The Red Brick House; Seventeen: Have House, Will Garden; Eighteen: Jamaican Dreams.; title: Nineteen: The PaintingTwenty: Paradise Regained; Twenty-one: Betrayal and Loss; Twenty-two: A Secret Garden; Twenty-three: "Solid and Sensible"; Twenty-four: More Important Than Things; Part Three: Visiting Home; Twenty-five: Mama Throws Down the Gauntlet; Twenty-six: A Lot of Grace; Twenty-seven: My Inheritance; Twenty-eight: The Rebel Gene; Twenty-nine: Market Day and a Confession; Part Four: The Blue House; Thirty: Country Road; Thirty-one: Entertaining Angels; Thirty-two: Doubting St. Thomas'; Thirty-three: The Grandmothers Have Spoken; Thirty-four: Reconnecting.; title: Thirty-five: Red Brick House ReduxThirty-six: A New Church; Thirty-seven: Expect the Unexpected; Thirty-eight: A Wish Granted; Part Five: The Old Farmhouse; Thirty-nine: Mysterious Charms; Forty: Terror; Forty-one: Hamlin Plants Flowers; Forty-two: Homecoming Days; Forty-three: A Thing of Beauty; Forty-four: Setback; Forty-five: Crying Over Red Shoes; Forty-six: Words Fail Me; Forty-seven: Blessings; Forty-eight: Retreat; Forty-nine: St. Martin's Day; Fifty: All Shall Be Well; Fifty-one: New Wine; Fifty-two: Strength from the Past; Fifty-three: What Remains; Epilogue: Home at Last.