Getting It Right【電子書籍】[ Karen E. Osborne ]＞△◎1196 - 隠れ家エステ

＜p＞"Osborne explores questions of race, privilege, and family loyalties without offering any false, easy answers for her two protagonists."＜br /＞ --＜em＞＜strong＞Booklist＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Looking for an edge-of-your-seat suspense yarn? You won't find a more absorbing story than ＜em＞Getting It Right＜/em＞...In it we get to know half sisters Kara and Alex, who meet for the first time as adults. Over two weeks in March, the siblings deal with both their own and common issues and drama in ways that entertain and enlighten."＜br /＞ --＜strong＞＜em＞Essence,＜/em＞ One of Summer's Best Books＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Osborne has created a compelling story of women trying to move past the bondage of their upbringing. We are left wondering, what does it mean to make amends? Is redemption possible?...＜em＞Getting It Right＜/em＞ is absorbing and pushes at understanding race, family bonds, and trauma."＜br /＞ --＜em＞＜strong＞Atticus Review＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Getting It Right＜/em＞ is the story of Kara and Alex, half-sisters who have never metーone the product of an abusive foster-care setting, the other of dysfunctional privilege. Haunted by crippling memories, Kara falls for the wrong men, tries to help her foster-care siblings suffering from PTSD, and longs for the father and half-sister she only knows from a photograph. Alex, meanwhile, struggles to keep her younger sisters out of trouble, her mother sane, and her marketing business afloat.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Now Alex has a new responsibility: from his hospital bed, her father tasks her with finding Kara, the mixed-race child he abandoned. Alex is stunned to learn of Kara's existence but reluctantly agrees.＜/p＞ ＜p＞To make things more complicated, Kara loves a married man whom the FBI is pursuing for insider trading. When Alex eventually finds her half-sister, she becomes embroiled in Kara's dangers, which threaten to drag them both down. If Kara doesn't help the FBI, she could face prosecution and possible incarceration, and if Alex can't persuade Kara to meet their father, she will let him down during the final days of his life.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Set in Harlem, the Bronx, and the wealthy community of Bedford, New York, during two weeks in March, ＜em＞Getting It Right＜/em＞ explores grit and resilience, evolving definitions of race and family, and the ultimate power of redemption and forgiveness.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。・・・楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア