Feeney
Michele M. Feeney
Award-winning Author of Like Family
The next book in the Like Family series is on its way. Like Home, deepens the story of Mollie, Tom, and Cecilia in a powerful tale of family and hope.
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Like Home
Mollie Crowley Reid, a schoolteacher, lives in rural Michigan with her husband, Tom, a store owner and farmer, and their adopted daughter, Cecilia, an art student. In the depths of the Great Depression, Mollie receives unexpected news that impacts the future of her family and makes the threats to their economic well-being even more daunting.
Facing these new challenges, Mollie fights to maintain her beloved career, her home, her health, and her family, all the while reaching out to help those around her as best she can. Cecilia, orphaned during the influenza epidemic of 1918, seeks a connection with her biological family and her identity as a student and artist. Tom, with sometimes crushing responsibility, fights to maintain his livelihood and mental health, make sense of turbulent politics, and extend compassion and assistance in his community.
Through trials of illness, financial hardship, unsettling times, and family displacement, they discover home is not a place but rather the people who choose to love and support each other through life’s unexpected turns. And family, they learn, is built on shared struggles and love.
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"The magic of historical fiction happens when we stop being an observer of history and become a participant. Author Michele Feeney performs this magic deftly. Without our even realizing it, Feeney weaves her words and draws us away from today and deep into the early 1930s in Emmett, Michigan. All eyes and all thoughts will be on Mollie Crowley Reid and her family as they move through their days, their lives, their changes and challenges."
- Kathie Giorgio, author of Don’t Let Me Keep You and Hope Always Rises
Reviews
"Michele Feeney's Like Home carries on the compelling story of Mollie, Tom, and Cecilia during the Great Depression, strengthening their precious bond and deepening our understanding of how we carry our home in our hearts. Tender, empathetic, and wise, this follow-up to Feeney's Like Family is a gift."
- Tara Ison, author of At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf
"Michele Feeney’s project in her historical series is a laudable one, allowing the contemporary reader into the lives and loves, as well as the liabilities and limitations, of a time not our own. And yet, strangely, somehow unsettlingly reminiscent of the not-so-distant past. It is both reassuring and unsettling to realize that history repeats. I enjoyed this novel thoroughly."
- Antonya Nelson, author of Bound and Funny Once
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