Family of Choice: Raising Each Other

by Corky Thacker

Overview

Family of Choice: Raising Each Other features four A.A. recovery "family" members who help one another navigate life, death, success, fear, love, loss, grief, harassment, and renewal—developing spirituality and bonds they can rely on. Brisk pacing, snappy dialogue, humor alternating with tears, and compelling characters with interwoven experiences maintain a strong emotional pull to keep turning the pages. Fans of Jan Karon's Mitford books and Winston Graham's Poldark volumes will enjoy this first novel of the Family of Choiceseries.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940186019527
Publisher:	Gatekeeper Press
Publication date:	12/22/2023
Series:	Family of Choice , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Corky Thacker is a successful professional writer whose work has appeared in newspapers, international trade publications, and on the radio. Her boutique marketing communications agency served business-to-business and technical clients for twenty years prior to her retirement. Family of Choice: Raising Each Other draws on her three decades of experience in the recovery community as well as her interest in roses and vintage homes (the first garden she created was featured in This Old House magazine). Corky and her husband grow more than three hundred roses at their home in Cleveland, Ohio. This is her first novel.

Editorial Reviews

Overall, a funny, warm book that explores how the family we choose can be more important to our emotional and spiritual growth than the family we are born to. With humor, snappy dialogue, and a bit of spice, there are deeper messages of life's lessons, human growth and maturity, spirituality, and coping with grief and loss. Eminently readable, you'll enjoy meeting Micky, Brad, Lillian and Sally, and wish they were your family, too!

ABPP Psychologist - Kathleen R. Ashton, Ph.D.

I was captured by the depth of this story and the characters as well as the author's ability to draw me into this close-knit group of friends. I felt excitement, joy, and sorrow throughout and was pleasantly surprised by unexpected outcomes. Not only is the book a great read, it offers real insight into the complexities of love, faith, life, and death. I am eagerly awaiting the next book in the series.

The Rev. Vincent Black - N/A