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Drifting Too Far From The Shore Paperback – September 15, 2016
- Winston Groom, author of Forrest Gump
Readers will fall in love with Muddy "Charlotte" Rewis, a sassy yet reserved southern woman who has a cane and ain't afraid to use it. Muddy believes she is in her last days and longs to reunite in heaven with her deceased husband, Claude, But when Muddy's grandson shoots out a neighbor's front window, an old friendship is renewed, and troubling mysteries irresistibly revived.
Full of humorous moments, Drifting Too Far from the Shore is a wonderful story of small town American South and of making the most of life.
- Print length202 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherSummertime Publications Inc
- Publication dateSeptember 15, 2016
- Dimensions5.51 x 0.46 x 8.5 inches
- ISBN-101940333091
- ISBN-13978-1940333090
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- Publisher : Summertime Publications Inc (September 15, 2016)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 202 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1940333091
- ISBN-13 : 978-1940333090
- Item Weight : 9.3 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.51 x 0.46 x 8.5 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #4,066,390 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #34,883 in Humorous Fiction
- #68,151 in Contemporary Women Fiction
- #154,492 in Literary Fiction (Books)
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Bio: Niles Reddick’s newest is a collection, Reading the Coffee Grounds and Other Stories. His novel Drifting too far from the Shore has been nominated for several literary awards. Previously, his collection Road Kill Art and Other Oddities was a finalist for an Eppie award and his first novella Lead Me Home was a national finalist for a ForeWord award. His work has been included in eleven anthologies and over one hundred fifty literary magazines all over the world. He works for the University of Memphis at Lambuth in Jackson, Tennessee. His website is www.nilesreddick.com
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Reddick offers the best in Southern-Georgia storytelling in his latest novel. Inspired by a song with the same title, Drifting Too Far from Shore is so much more than a story of an elderly Georgian woman. Indeed, in many ways a white version of Tyler Perry's Madea, Muddy ruminates on the efficacy (or lack thereof) of current issues in society. Reddick gets his readers thinking, too, as Muddy covers topics such as interracial relationships, taxpayer dollars to support prison systems, Social Security, terrorism, immigration, religion, free will, the Golden Rule, lottery tickets, and education, just to mention a few.
While his audience gets caught up in Muddy's fictional life, Reddick weaves in factual reminders to several unconscionable acts against humanity. Dedicating each chapter to the memory of victims, Reddick goes from specific to broad as he zeroes in on local news familiar to Southern Georgians (i.e., lynchings, immigrant workers, mass graves) before drawing attention to the national and international scenes (i.e., Jonestown, 9/11). Provocative, heart warming, and downright hilarious, Drifting Too Far from Shore is guaranteed to become an iconic award-winning read.
Reviewed by Anita Lock
Originally posted on San Francisco Book Review
Reddick’s tone also reminds me a bit of Jan Karon in her Mitford series, also set in a small town, and with a touch of mystery and romance amongst the older set. Karon places her colorful cast of characters in North Carolina, while Reddick chooses Georgia as the setting for his stories, but the South itself often appears as an additional character in these types of books. Setting—and sense of place—are everything in the Southern novel.
Her two grandsons visit one day and Muddy has them do some yard work for her. After they've finished she roots through the closet and gives the boys a few pieces of clothing that belonged to her late husband. She also takes out a box that contains her husband's two pistols because she wants her grandsons to have them. Muddy doesn't know that one still has a bullet in it and her grandson accidentally shoots out the window of the neighbor across the street, Fred Stalvey. From this incident, Muddy learns that Fred isn't the old dirty scarecrow she thought he was.
Muddy has many incidents with family and friends in the book, but nostalgia took over when songs like "Farther Along" and "Angel Band" were mentioned. "Drifting Too Far From the Shore" has a bit of everything that brings the book together in one delightful look at a woman's strengths and life lessons from a character who isn't easy to forget.
This copy of the book was provided to me by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.