Face the Winter Naked [Kindle Edition]

Bonnie Turner (Author)

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Product Description

Daniel Tomelin, a battle-worn veteran haunted by the carnage of the First World War, deserts his family in the Great Depression and goes on the road to seek relief from his soul-shaking trauma. He's too proud to return and face his loving wife without a job, but LaDaisy is determined to care for their family alone, if that's what it takes. After leaving his loved ones to cope with a hell he helped create, does Daniel dare show his face again? Sometimes LaDaisy feels like killing him.

FACE THE WINTER NAKED is a story for today's struggling economy and unemployed citizens, set in a tragic era when hope was sometimes all they had.

Bonnie Turner's Face the Winter Naked is set during the Great Depression, but her story encompasses issues that reach far beyond that era and know no time constraints”war. Political strife. Economic collapse. Environmental catastrophe. Division of families. Cruelty and oppression. Poverty, inequity, and all the faces of prejudice. But it is also about love. And faith. And strength. And hope, forgiveness, and perseverance.

Face the Winter Naked provides an engrossing read in which Turner interweaves history, geography, and a compelling love story. More than that, it is a story that looks beyond the surface, delving into the inner workings of the human mind”a powerful narrative that illuminates larger issues of humanity that are timeless and volatile and just as apropos today as decades ago. “

~ Karen Donley-Hayes, M.A.I.S., author and editor
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"FACE THE WINTER NAKED is a gorgeously written and evocative novel of an earlier economic crisis: the Great Depression. Readers looking for a stunning read, intelligent and emotional on every level, will not be disappointed."

~ Lauren Baratz-Logsted, author of Crazy Beautiful and The Education of Bet

From the Back Cover

"Bonnie Turner's Face the Winter Naked is a beautifully written tale of strength, hope, love, and despair. Within the pages of this book, the era of the Great Depression unfolds into sharply focused reality, and the people who were impacted the most by that time of financial desperation come to life. Ms. Turner is an excellent storyteller, and I found myself completely immersed in her narrative."

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Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 516 KB
• Print Length: 288 pages
• Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0557299349
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: Aurorawolf Books (Bonnie Turner); First edition (February 21, 2010)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0039IT0SS
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (54 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #68 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Free in Kindle Store)
  • #1 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Fiction > Literary Fiction
  • #3 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Fiction > Genre Fiction > Historical

More About the Author

Bonnie Turner was born on Halloween in Independence, Missouri, at the height of the Great Depression, and currently resides in Wisconsin. She is a grandmother and great-grandmother. Her interests are many and varied, and include astronomy, geography, yoga and metaphysics. She is a jack-of-all-trades, a Mensa *almost*, a classical music & jazz aficionado. Her favorite musician is Jazz guitarist/composer Al Di Meola--she considers herself his #1 fan.

Turner's favorite authors include: Mark Twain, James A. Michener, poets Robert Service and Edgar A. Guest. Some favorite books: Giants in the Earth (O.E. Rolvaag), Steamboat Gothic (Frances Parkinson Keyes), Chesapeake (Michener), the epic poem, The Odyssey of Homer, and Harvest Home (Thomas Tryon). Favorite genres: historical fiction, young-adult fiction, literary, humor, Americana, mainstream, commercial--almost anything except violent, gory tales.

Turner's first novel for young readers was The Haunted Igloo, published in 1991 by Houghton Mifflin. After that book was published, she visited grade schools with a handmade Eskimo doll and encouraged students to keep reading and writing--and offered "polar bear" hugs along with her autograph. Among her favorite fan letters are these gems: "Mrs. Turner, I'd give you a million dollars for this book!"; "Dear Mrs. Turner, Thank you for getting me out of sixth hour!!!"; "Dear Mrs. Turner, Thank you from all the lead in my pencil!" What great kids, those middle-grade students!

The author next published Spirit Lights (sequel to The Haunted Igloo), Down the Memory Hole (about a boy and his grandfather, an Alzheimer's patient), and Footprints in Time: A Walk in Sacajawea's Moccasins.

Other titles:

Face the Winter Naked, an adult historical novel set in the Great Depression, available from Amazon.com (paperback and Kindle) and is also available in other eBook formats.

Face the Winter Naked Book Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zce8e6jV8R4

DRUM DANCE: a young-adult novel set in the Arctic.

Current writing projects:

* SUPER MENTAL MAGIC, nonfiction.
* THE GHOST OF CALICO ACRES, set in southwestern Wisconsin.
* JAZZBABY: historical novel set in the flapper era--on the horizon and perhaps a long way over the rainbow.

Please visit Bonnie Turner's web page: http://my.athenet.net/~aurorawolf

Customer Reviews

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53 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars an engaging historical novel, May 21, 2010

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MonK - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Face the Winter Naked (Paperback)

Face The Winter Naked is a poignant tale of a family's plight during the Great Depression. Plagued by traumatic memories of the First World War, Daniel abandons his family, leaving his wife LaDaisy to fend for herself and the children. The narrative alternates between Daniel's life as a hobo seeking work and LaDaisy's struggle to keep her family alive while fighting off the advances of a man with the power to leave her and her children homeless. Turner's engaging writing tells their stories with compassion and insight and vividly brings to life the feel of the era. If you liked Water for Elephants, this is one for you.

29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great read!, February 2, 2011

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Amy Sue Nathan - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Face the Winter Naked (Kindle Edition)

I'm a very picky reader and I don't finish books I don't like -- my reading time is too precious to waste. Reading FACE THE WINTER NAKED was a wonderful way to spend my time. It's well-written, vivid, engaging and heart-tugging. I went to sleep at night thinking of Daniel and LaDaisy , the main characters, and woke up in the morning ready to read more. I raced to the end of the book to know what happened but was sorry when I read the last page because my time with the characters was over.

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for these times, August 14, 2010

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EJ Knapp (San Francisco) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Face the Winter Naked (Kindle Edition)

Face The Winter Naked could as well be speculative fiction about the state of our near future as it is about the realities of a dark period in our not so distant past. It is the tale of the Great Depression and the toll it takes on one family. In poignant words, Ms. Turner shows us the heartbreak of desperate men and women trying to survive in a desperate time.