The Last House on the Street by Diane Chamberlain
on January 11, 2022
Genres: Fiction / Family Life / General, Fiction / Women
Pages: 352
Format: Audiobook
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“The real thing isn’t always sunshine and roses and it’s not always … exciting or thrilling, but it’s solid. That’s the kind of thing that lasts.”
Secrets won’t stay silent for ever.
2020. A recently widowed architect moves into the home she and her late husband designed, heartbroken that he will never cross the threshold. But when disturbing things begin to happen, it’s clear that someone is sending her a warning. Who is trying to frighten her away, and why? It is only when she meets an elderly neighbor that she learns the street has a shocking and tragic past. A past that some will go to any lengths to keep hidden.
1964. A young white female student becomes involved in the fight for civil rights in North Carolina, falling in love with one of her fellow activists, in a time and place where an interracial relationship must be hidden from family, friends and especially the reemerging Ku Klux Klan. As tensions rise in the town, she realizes not everyone is who they appear to be.
Decades later, past and present are set to collide in the last house on the street…
Oh man, grab the kleenex!! This book will break you. Told in dual timelines, both equally enthralling, I could not put this down. I felt so much while reading this: anger, frustration, heartache. As one can imagine, 1965 in a Southern state does not make for an easy read. My heart broke at what some of these memorable and highly believable characters went through, and my blood boiled reading about the ignorant and hateful people who put them through it. This is not an easy read, but it is important and still relevant today.
I rated this novel 4.5 stars. It was remarkable, unputdownable, powerful, sentimental, thought provoking masterpiece I highly recommend to bookworms which earned my 4.5 blazing, intense, heartfelt, family, friendship, inequality stars!
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