Bøker av Lynne Bryant

Dr. Miriam Stewart works tirelessly to help Appalachian women gain control over their bodies-to make a deliberate decision whether to be a mother. Bone-weary, but with a nagging fear of the obsolescence of retirement, Miriam is sandwiched between two frustratingly independent women; neither will listen to her advice. Her aging mother, Lillian, a locally beloved, retired mountain midwife, refuses to leave her farmhouse nestled deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Olivia, her thirty-year-old daughter, searches for the perfect sperm donor for the baby she's determined to have.When a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity promises her work legacy will continue, Miriam's passion is renewed. But her carefully ordered world explodes when the fulfillment of her dream collides with her mother's long-kept secrets. Secrets that undermine the very foundation of Miriam's beliefs about who she is, her career, and especially, what it means to mother. Miriam is faced with an impossible choice.In The Mother Gene, Lynne Bryant casts a contemporary story of mothers and daughters against the backdrop of a not-so-distant dark time in American history, when powerful forces sought to control who should have children. Three generations of women struggle with the intertwined choices of sex, love, pregnancy, and motherhood.

As a pregnant teenager, Avery Pritchett found refuge in Colorado, but now, ten years later, her brother's wedding-and some burning questions-bring her back home to her small Southern town. But will introducing her mixed- race daughter to her independent-minded grandmother bring solace or sorrow? Will confronting her class-conscious mother allow for new beginnings or confirm old resentments? And how can she ask forgiveness of her youthful lover who has been denied his child all these years? As the summer progresses, Avery's return provokes shocking discoveries-of choices made, and secrets kept-and of deceptions that lie closer than she suspects.

En uønsket oppgave får uante følger ... Roxanne Reeves er med i en komité som arrangerer byvandring i Clarksville, Mississippi. Da hun får i oppgave å gi en omvisning i det tidligere afroamerikanske samfunnet, er hun først skeptisk. Hva i all verden kan være interessant ved det? Motstrebende går hun med på det og finner ut at hun trenger en guide. Grace Clark var i mange år lærer ved den svarte grunnskolen, og den eldre kvinnen ser seg villig til å hjelpe Roxanne dersom hun kjører henne rundt og skriver ned historiene. Grace tar henne med til Catfish Alley, til hus som er falleferdige eller borte nå, men som har så mange historier knyttet til seg. Mens Roxanne lytter til Grace, får hun øynene opp for mennesker som i alle år har vært usynlige for henne. Hun forflyttes tilbake i tid, til 1931, da en hvit manns hat mot Graces bror, Zero, førte til hendelser som forandret deres liv for alltid.