Yesterday Mourning 10th Anniversary Edition

by Renita Bryant

Overview

Yvette is a forty-one-year-old woman struggling to cope with losing both parents during her twenties-one to terminal disease and the other to life's complications. Over the years, she learned to repress the pain of watching her mother die and the resentment of having her father casually walk out of her life. Now as she packs her bags to return to her Georgia hometown and the house where final goodbyes were never spoken, a growing sense of uneasiness intensifies.

Vera is the kind-hearted stepsister Yvette never imagined nor wanted. She was an innocent teenager when Yvette's father, the Pastor, entered her life. Although broken from the loss of his beloved wife and daughters, he loved Vera as his own child and gave her the affection she so desperately needed. However, a childhood secret threatens to compromise everything Vera holds dear.

When the Pastor's health takes a turn for the worse, both daughters must decide if they have the strength and courage to no longer be confined by burdens of the past. Will Yvette overcome feelings of abandonment and forgive her father before it's too late? Does Vera's childhood secret hold the key to mending this family's broken relationship?

Yesterday Mourning is a heartfelt and poignant novella about a family learning invaluable lessons of forgiveness, love, loss and ultimately-peace.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781963874198
Publisher:	Mynd Matters
Publication date:	10/04/2024
Edition description:	10th Anniversary ed.
Pages:	158
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.43(d)

About the Author

RENITA BRYANT is an author, publisher, and entrepreneur. Her works include Rihanna's Can-Do Adventures, and Santa's Holiday Mix-Up (Holidayville Adventures series). She is the founder of Mynd Matters Publishing, a hybrid publishing company based in Atlanta, Georgia, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA).

Editorial Reviews

"In her debut novella, Yesterday Mourning, author Renita Bryant weaves a heartfelt and touching story of love, loss, forgiveness, and healing. Yesterday Mourning is a poignant tale that follows two women as they struggle to reconcile their separate yet shared troubled family past that forever binds them together. It is a powerful and compelling tale that takes the reader on an emotional roller coaster ride, yet leaves them wanting more. The author easily draws the reader into Yvette and Vera's lives, you can't help but become invested as their family story unfolds, you'll feel the full gamut of emotions, and it will give you much food for thought towards your own family relationships. This is an inspirational, honest, and raw story that wraps itself around you as you delve into the complex and complicated dynamic of Yvette and Vera's family. Through the drama and emotional turmoil of their pasts, their struggle to reconcile and move forward in their lives is breathtaking as they are taught life lessons about loss, love, forgiveness, healing, and redemption. I don't think that anyone will come away from this story without feeling some emotional connection. Yesterday Mourning is an amazing story with a thoughtful and soul-searching message that will stay with you long after the last words have been read."

"This is a great book! If you love fiction and great writing, Yesterday Mourning is sure to satiate your literary curiosity! From the very beginning, Bryant draws you in with powerful imagery and rhythmic dialogue that makes the reader feel as though they are in the time and setting of the book. The characters are very relatable and the story told is one that all can empathize with, even if they haven't gone through similar situations themselves. For her first book, Bryant impressed and that speaks volumes to her dedication to her craft as a writer."

"Ms. Bryant's brilliantly descriptive style of storytelling is reminiscent of Baldwin's early years. Couple that with an intense, sometimes tear-jerking story told at a perfect pace and you've got a literary gem here worth reading again and again. Yesterday Mourning takes us on a worthwhile journey through the joys and pains of the human experience through a tale of every kind of love, hope, regret, and forgiveness."

"I thoroughly enjoyed reading Yesterday Mourning. It was an easy read with well-developed characters. The author breathed life into each character with such true emotion. I felt as if I knew each character personally and I couldn't stop reading until I had finished the book. I am so looking forward to this author's next work. Well done."

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