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A Bright Tomorrow (Originally A Time to be Born) (American Century Series #1)

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I found this six book series in my public library and after reading the first one of them, I am hooked. Since I read the original title, there is no way to tell for sure how much revision was done in 2007.

Gilbert Morris once again crafts historical fiction into so much reality that one is sure the Sturat family really did exist. (I checked and they don't.) The realism is wonderful and the portrayal of characters in late 1800's into early 1900 is accurate and moving yet spins a tale that really could happen to children of an unambitious Arkansas farmer and sweet wife who bore 8 children. All of their tales will be told through the series.

In book one, A Time to be Born, the story is mostly about the three oldest of the eight children. All three know that there has to be more than scraping out a life in the hills of Arkansas and all travel interconnecting routes. Morris is an insightful historian who puts the events of the presidency of T. Roosevelt into an inescapable read. It is not spell binding, nor rivoting, but it is a wonderful story of survival and finding fulfillment in both loss and love. The ending is so sweet, but don't you dare read it early! You would lose far too much of a heart-stiring story.