Chasing Down a Dream: A Blessings Novel
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NAACP nominee and USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins continues her beloved Blessings series with a heartwarming novel about what really makes a family.
There's never a dull day in Henry Adams, Kansas.
Tamar July has never had a great relationship with certain members of her family. In fact, she'd characterize it as a "hate/hate relationship." But when her cousin calls her with the news that she's dying and wants Tamar to plan the funeral, she's shocked but is willing to drop everything for her.
After a horrendous storm, Gemma finds a young boy and his little sister walking on the side of the road. She takes them in, and quickly falls in love with the orphaned siblings. But when Gemma contacts Social Services to try to become their foster mother, she's told a white woman cannot foster African-American children.
In the midst of these trials, Jack and Rocky are trying to plan their wedding. The entire town comes together to lend a helping hand.
Though the residents of Henry Adams face seemingly insurmountable obstacles, each of them will discover that family comes in many forms, especially during the most trying of times.
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Beverly Jenkins. (2017). Chasing Down a Dream: A Blessings Novel. HarperCollins.
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Beverly Jenkins is the recipient of the 2018 Michigan Author Award by the Michigan Library Association, the 2017 Romance Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as the 2016 Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award for historical romance. She has been nominated for the NAACP Image Award in Literature, was featured in both the documentary Love Between the Covers and on CBS Sunday Morning. Since the publication of Night Song in 1994, she has been leading the charge for inclusive romance, and has been a constant darling of reviewers, fans, and her peers alike, garnering accolades for her work from the likes of The Wall Street Journal, People Magazine, and NPR.
To read more about Beverly, visit her at www.BeverlyJenkins.net.
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There's never a dull day in Henry Adams, Kansas.
Tamar July has never had a great relationship with certain members of her family. In fact, she'd characterize it as a "hate/hate relationship." But when her cousin calls her with the news that she's dying and wants Tamar to plan the funeral, she's shocked but is willing to drop everything for her.
After a horrendous storm, Gemma finds a young boy and his little sister walking on the side of the road. She takes them in, and quickly falls in love with the orphaned siblings. But when Gemma contacts Social Services to try to become their foster mother, she's told a white woman cannot foster African-American children.
In the midst of these trials, Jack and Rocky are trying to plan their wedding. The entire town comes together to lend a helping hand.Though the residents of Henry Adams face seemingly insurmountable obstacles, each of them will discover that family comes in many forms, especially during the most trying of times.
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"An endearing story of found family and personal growth." — Kirkus Reviews
"Every visit to Henry Adams, Kansas, is like a warm hug... All is not perfect because humans make mistakes, but the knowledge that the people of this town will rise to the challenge, together, is a blessing." — RT Book Reviews (top pick)
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Jenkins continues the saga of Henry Adams, Kans.—the historic town settled by former slaves and purchased on Ebay by Bernadine Brown in Bring on the Blessings. Bernadine is back, alongside the eclectic cast of town characters, including a few new residents. In this second of the series, the town has to come together to deal with a potentially calamitous embezzlement scandal, new township merging offers, a near shut-down of the town’s only diner, and a cash-strapped wedding for two of Henry Adams’s most adored residents. Although the novel is abuzz with subplots, Bernadine’s longtime neighbor and friend Gemma Dahl occupies the central thread. Gemma’s quiet life is disrupted when she comes across two orphaned children, Lucas and Jaz Herman, stranded on the road after a torrential storm. Gemma is determined to give the kids a home after hearing their horrendous stories of life in the foster system, but is shocked to discover that she cannot foster African-American children due to racial biases within the state’s social services. Heartbroken at being ripped from their new home, Lucas and Jaz start to lose hope that they will ever have a normal family life. In this winsome novel, Jenkins opens up the small, insular town to embrace the dreams of society’s most marginalized. Fans of Jenkins will enjoy the many new plotlines and characters established, and readers new to Henry Adams will be enthralled by Gemma’s story of determination.
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The joyous soap opera that is Jenkins' Blessings series (Stepping to a New Day, 2016, etc.) continues as she returns to the small town of Henry Adams, Kansas.When two kids get caught in a tornado, losing their only family, Gemma Dahl picks them up, takes them on, and falls in love. With the support of the most powerful women in town, Gemma is in the fast lane to foster the pair, who have taken hit after hit. The representative from Children's Services, on the other hand, is less inclined to foster two black children with a white woman. Meanwhile, drama abounds for Henry Adams' other residents, with a wedding on the schedule, long waits at the town's only eatery, and a growing number of residents bringing changes to the town. As the population increases, so does the number of storylines the reader has to keep track of. It can be hard to juggle all the characters when some are from past installments and some are potentially future headliners. In the end, the story comes to a temporary conclusion, awaiting the next bit of love and conflict. While a little sloppier than the author's most recent efforts, this installation of the saga of Henry Adams will move readers in the same way the previous seven have. An endearing story of found family and personal growth.COPYRIGHT(2017) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Jenkins' latest smart and highly enjoyable Blessings novel, following Stepping to a New Day (2016), deals with such serious issues as racism and such fun themes as wedding planning. Gemma is driving to work after a storm and finds two orphaned African American children with no place to go. She and her 12-year-old son take them in only to run up against a social worker who does not think these children belong with a white parent. Gemma persists, struggling with job issues as she builds a home for all three children. Meanwhile, dreams of her ancestors help matriarch Tamar find the benefits of forgiveness when a hated cousin comes to Blessings to die. Rocky finds the perfect leather wedding outfit and a way to overcome her fears of marriage. A new restaurant threatens a popular diner's success, and the owner absconds with the cash and the computer files. Throughout all this turmoil, the Kansas town pulls together. The talented, insightful Jenkins infuses tragic stories with emotion and hope. Fans of Debbie Macomber's Cedar Cove novels will love the Blessings series.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)
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