With a gun, a typewriter, and a wolf-hound, Annie fires up her junker and embarks on a journey across America seeking a long-lost daughter. At seventy years old, driven mad with guilt, alienated from her family, angry at the world, Annie has little time to make it right. It all happened so fast -- the infant ripped from her arms at birth, then hustled away, the forcing of her signature on the adoption papers... Annie aches for her daughter's understanding, forgiveness, and love. What she gets is, redemption. Neurotic, funny, and enduring, Annie Hastings narrates the conflicts she confronts, and at times creates. They must all be conquered and overcome before finding her daughter and facing a truth buried in Annie's past... A birthmother on a mission and an oldster on a mission!
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5.0 out of 5 stars
On a mission!,
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This review is from: The Travels of Annie T. Hastings (Paperback)
The Travels of Annie T. Hastings is literary fiction at it's best. The story is of Annie T. Hastings, a woman in her 70's desperate to find the past she left behind some 40 years ago. The story is based on the travels of the author's mother and the journals she left behind upon her death.Annie decides she is going to mend her broken family by going to visit them before going to visit the daughter she was forced to give up for adoption. She wants to give her daughter a stable family to come home to. She packs up her car, her dog, her gun, and a little bit of cash a takes off to visit her nieces. Annie knows she is going to need more money after a short stay in her first stop. Her nieces have antiques that Annie can sell. When she arrives, she is not welcome the way one would welcome a relative that you haven't seen in years. Reading this part of the book made my blood boil and I wished I could reach through the pages and smack the nieces around a little bit for Annie. [...]
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Amazing story of a Fiesty Woman,
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This review is from: The Travels of Annie T. Hastings (Paperback)
Reviewed by Teresa Aguilar, wife of Gregory AguilarI absolutely adored this book. I laughed and I cried with the many sides of Annie that were portrayed. That is one woman that I would have enjoyed getting to know. There were so many aspects to Annie's personality that reminded me of people in my own life who have since passed on. And Wooly was a dog with a lot of human-like characteristics that was the perfect companion for this very intense woman. Annie T. Hastings would be considered a strong woman no matter what time period she lived in. This book was a remarkable tale of her trek to find a daughter that she gave up at birth. You will find yourself sympathizing with her as she runs into obstruction after obstruction trying to get there. But no matter what is thrown her way she perseveres. Annie travels with her dolls and her doll casts to visit family members trying to make a connection with them. Wanting to make dolls with her family, she wants to present a united front of a strong family to her daughter when she finally meets her. The people that Annie met on her travels were described so well that I could almost see them, especially Sister Rose. Sister Rose may have been strict and hard on some of the women who came to her and the other sisters for help but in the end you realize she was only that way because she cared so deeply for all those under her care. She only wanted the best for them. I felt great compassion for Annie as she dealt with various members of her family. Her nieces trying to keep Annie from retrieving her furniture, making excuses. And even though they treated her badly she triumphed and was able to recovery her property. You are left with the feeling of wanting to crawl into the book and help Annie with her problems with her family. When Annie finally finds her daughter you can feel her vulnerability as she tries to figure out the best way to meet her. Basically stalking her daughter she ends up nearly severing the relationship before it starts. Throughout the book Annie is a strong woman yet she shares her failings in life as well. If I take this book at face value as the journals of a woman's journey through the latter part of life it is absolutely amazing. But if it is just a story by Michael Hastings then he has an eerie understanding of a woman's mind. Either way I enjoyed the book and would certainly recommend it to my friends.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Annie Hastings' journey,
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This review is from: The Travels of Annie T. Hastings (Paperback)
I read the book and reccomended it to my teenage daughter. She loved it too.I found it interesting, as the author builds suspension throughout the book, backed by solid humor and charged with lots of emotional experiences. Humor, pain, expectations, excentrism, love and hope, are all interwined to the end, and one can't help but embrace and support the heroine's journey in finding the long lost daughter. It is a very moving story that exposes the happiness and joyous things that one enjoys in the life journey, but at the same time, the sad and sometimes ugly reality of what life can be,-that, faced with heroism and humor. Laughing and crying at times, the book kept me put, and of course, i finished it in one sitting. Great book!
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