What is Found is Lost by Anne Leigh Parrish Book Review

About the book: Meet Anna, Lorraine, Freddie, and Beth. Four women, who share blood and not much more, except that each is searching for something lost. Anna seeks to find her place in a new world. Lorraine looks to an all-powerful god to forget herself in. Freddie searches for herself without religion to forget her mother’s overbearing doctrine. Beth can’t find her soul in her mother’s walled off eyes.

For four generations these women have run away, run away from their own mother, their family, until Freddie sees in her daughter, Beth, the chance to break the cycle. With the support of her sister and the lingering words of a deceased husband, Freddie takes the first steps to healing herself and her relationship with her daughter, by confronting her past and her relationship with God.

About the Author: Anne Leigh Parrish’s debut story collection, All The Roads That Lead From Home (Press 53, 2011) won a silver medal in the 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards. Her second collection, Our Love Could Light The World, (She Writes Press, 2013) is a Kirkus Reviews recommended Indie title, and a finalist in both the International Book Awards and the Best Book Awards. She is the fiction editor for the online literary magazine Eclectica. She lives in Seattle.

My review;

I just finished reading What is Found is Lost and I really liked it. This is a story of a family. It could be any family but in this story most of the women in the family runaway when they cannot face a problem. The characters are wonderful and the author tells the story of different generations in their family. The story begins with a widow walking her dog down the street just remembering about her husband who had died a few months before. The storyline begins here with Freddie and her sister Holly at the beginning of the novel.