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A review by parklandmom
What Momma Left Behind by Cindy K. Sproles
5.0
Finished: Jan. 04/25
Format: audiobook from Chirp
Narrator: Erica Sullivan (Ahhhhhhmazing!)
Challenge Prompt: EOW's *anytime in 2024* option for "book set during a time in history with an epidemic"
Book #03 of 2024: Cindy K. Sproles is a new-to-me author and... WOW!!! This is a fantastic novel and Worie is now a top favourite book heroine for me. She's 17, feisty, compassionate, strong, brave, and possesses a heart bigger than the Appalachian Mountains she lives in. She won me over immediately.
I can't even imagine how awful it must have been to go from living in the Appalachians, free of much of what ailed the general public in "civil" society, to having epidemics rain down and killing off your loved ones.
The novel opens with Worie burying her mother and acknowledging that she had become an orphan. Her entire area already had many orphaned children and the numbers are growing. She lovingly takes them in as a 17 year old and loves them fiercely from the get-go, regardless of her own grief.
Worie's two brothers consist of one caught up in alcohol and one that is a greedy, heartless sociopath. Yet this spitfire fights on with her new family. After a couple kids were taken from her, and one brother takes the house for himself, her priority is finding those kids. Help comes in the form of longtime family friends, who were formerly slaves, and a young pastor. One of her brothers comes to find purpose and identity through their struggles. As more secrets unfold, Worie battles with her patience and temper but God does amazing things in her life despite her circumstances. His plan unfolds to something that is just truly heartwarming to the core.
This novel had me smiling and chuckling in parts and eyes full of tears in others. While I experienced anger and disappointment during the rough times, I also wanted to stand up, applaud, and cheer myself hoarse amidst their triumphs. A novel that can draw out a gamut of emotions is an author I will read again and again.
I knew this would be a 5-star novel within the first hour or two of listening to this audiobook. Erica Sullivan gives a powerful performance as Narrator and if I knew her in person, she'd forever be Worie Dressar to me!
Format: audiobook from Chirp
Narrator: Erica Sullivan (Ahhhhhhmazing!)
Challenge Prompt: EOW's *anytime in 2024* option for "book set during a time in history with an epidemic"
Book #03 of 2024: Cindy K. Sproles is a new-to-me author and... WOW!!! This is a fantastic novel and Worie is now a top favourite book heroine for me. She's 17, feisty, compassionate, strong, brave, and possesses a heart bigger than the Appalachian Mountains she lives in. She won me over immediately.
I can't even imagine how awful it must have been to go from living in the Appalachians, free of much of what ailed the general public in "civil" society, to having epidemics rain down and killing off your loved ones.
The novel opens with Worie burying her mother and acknowledging that she had become an orphan. Her entire area already had many orphaned children and the numbers are growing. She lovingly takes them in as a 17 year old and loves them fiercely from the get-go, regardless of her own grief.
Worie's two brothers consist of one caught up in alcohol and one that is a greedy, heartless sociopath. Yet this spitfire fights on with her new family. After a couple kids were taken from her, and one brother takes the house for himself, her priority is finding those kids. Help comes in the form of longtime family friends, who were formerly slaves, and a young pastor. One of her brothers comes to find purpose and identity through their struggles. As more secrets unfold, Worie battles with her patience and temper but God does amazing things in her life despite her circumstances. His plan unfolds to something that is just truly heartwarming to the core.
This novel had me smiling and chuckling in parts and eyes full of tears in others. While I experienced anger and disappointment during the rough times, I also wanted to stand up, applaud, and cheer myself hoarse amidst their triumphs. A novel that can draw out a gamut of emotions is an author I will read again and again.
I knew this would be a 5-star novel within the first hour or two of listening to this audiobook. Erica Sullivan gives a powerful performance as Narrator and if I knew her in person, she'd forever be Worie Dressar to me!