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In Common

A Novel of Love and Sacrifice
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Description

In Common, a first novel from award-winning memoirist Norma Watkins (The Last Resort, That Woman from Mississippi), is the story of how much women willingly sacrifice for love.

Lillian Creekmore grows up at her family's popular rural spa. She successfully runs an entire hotel, yet longs for a husband. Then she meets Will Hughes.

Velma Vernon accepts life on a small, struggling farm until a boy she barely tolerates proposes marriage. To accept means duplicating her parents' hard life. Alone, she leaves for the city and triumphs, not as a wife, but by being the best at her job. Velma is content until the most beautiful man she has ever seen walks into her office.

This moving and darkly humorous novel follows the intertwined lives of women willing to surrender everything to a man.

Product Details

PublisherBlack Rose Writing
Publish DateApril 14, 2022
Pages594
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9781684339235
Dimensions9.0 X 6.0 X 1.5 inches | 1.6 pounds

About the Author

Raised in the South during the civil rights struggles, Norma Watkins is the author of two memoirs: The Last Resort, Taking the Mississippi Cure (2011), which won a gold medal for best nonfiction published in the South by an independent press; and That Woman from Mississippi (2017). She lives in northern California with her woodworker husband and a cat.

Reviews

"I've always loved books about the boundaries the world puts around women, and how they must either adapt to them or force some change in their immediate surroundings." -San Francisco Book Review

"...the great American novel, only this time it's from a woman's point of view, and this time it's set in the South. A significant literary achievement." -Michael Hettich, The Mica Mine; To Start an Orchard

"In a beautifully-written literary fiction novel set throughout the mid-1900's, Watkins takes the reader on an emotional journey through the lives of two women who sacrifice everything for love." -Sublime Book Review

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