The Beach Trees
Author: White, Karen
ISBN: 9780451233073
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 03 May 2011
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback / softback
b>From thei>New York Times/i>bestselling author of the Tradd Street novels comes a story of one woman's journey into a secret past-and a life she never expected on the ravaged coast of Biloxi, Mississippi..../b>br>br>Working at an auction house in New York, Julie Holt meets a struggling artist and single mother who reminds her very much of her missing younger sister. Monica Guidry paints a vivid picture of her Southern family through stories, but never says why or how she lost contact with them. And she has another secret- a heart condition that will soon take her life.br>br>Feeling as if she's lost her sister a second time, Julie inherits from Monica an antique portrait-as well as custody of her young son. Taking him to Biloxi, Mississippi, to meet the family he's never known, Julie discovers a connection of her own. The portrait, of an old Guidry relative, was done by her great-grandfather-and unlocks a surprising family history....br>br>b>READERS GUIDE INCLUDED/b>BR>BR>b>From thei>New York Times/i>bestselling author of the Tradd Street novels comes a story of one woman's journey into a secret past-and a life she never expected on the ravaged coast of Biloxi, Mississippi..../b>br>br>Working at an auction house in New York, Julie Holt meets a struggling artist and single mother who reminds her very much of her missing younger sister. Monica Guidry paints a vivid picture of her Southern family through stories, but never says why or how she lost contact with them. And she has another secret- a heart condition that will soon take her life.br>br>Feeling as if she's lost her sister a second time, Julie inherits from Monica an antique portrait-as well as custody of her young son. Taking him to Biloxi, Mississippi, to meet the family he's never known, Julie discovers a connection of her own. The portrait, of an old Guidry relative, was done by her great-grandfather-and unlocks a surprising family history....br>br>b>READERS GUIDE INCLUDED/b>
ISBN: 9780451233073
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 03 May 2011
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback / softback
b>From thei>New York Times/i>bestselling author of the Tradd Street novels comes a story of one woman's journey into a secret past-and a life she never expected on the ravaged coast of Biloxi, Mississippi..../b>br>br>Working at an auction house in New York, Julie Holt meets a struggling artist and single mother who reminds her very much of her missing younger sister. Monica Guidry paints a vivid picture of her Southern family through stories, but never says why or how she lost contact with them. And she has another secret- a heart condition that will soon take her life.br>br>Feeling as if she's lost her sister a second time, Julie inherits from Monica an antique portrait-as well as custody of her young son. Taking him to Biloxi, Mississippi, to meet the family he's never known, Julie discovers a connection of her own. The portrait, of an old Guidry relative, was done by her great-grandfather-and unlocks a surprising family history....br>br>b>READERS GUIDE INCLUDED/b>BR>BR>b>From thei>New York Times/i>bestselling author of the Tradd Street novels comes a story of one woman's journey into a secret past-and a life she never expected on the ravaged coast of Biloxi, Mississippi..../b>br>br>Working at an auction house in New York, Julie Holt meets a struggling artist and single mother who reminds her very much of her missing younger sister. Monica Guidry paints a vivid picture of her Southern family through stories, but never says why or how she lost contact with them. And she has another secret- a heart condition that will soon take her life.br>br>Feeling as if she's lost her sister a second time, Julie inherits from Monica an antique portrait-as well as custody of her young son. Taking him to Biloxi, Mississippi, to meet the family he's never known, Julie discovers a connection of her own. The portrait, of an old Guidry relative, was done by her great-grandfather-and unlocks a surprising family history....br>br>b>READERS GUIDE INCLUDED/b>
