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The Tender Land: A Family Love Story

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The Tender Land: A Family Love StoryA superb portrait of family life, THE TENDER LAND is a love story unlike any other. The Finnerans parents and five children, Irish Catholics in St. Louis are a seemingly unexceptional family. Theirs is a story seldom told, yet it makes manifest how rich and truly extraordinary the ordinary daily experience we take for granted is. In quietly luminous language, Kathleen Finneran renders the emotional, spiritual, and physical terrain of family life its

A superb portrait of family life, THE TENDER LAND is a love story unlike any other. The Finnerans -- parents and five children, Irish Catholics in St. Louis -- are a seemingly unexceptional family. Theirs is a story seldom told, yet it makes manifest how rich and truly extraordinary the ordinary daily experience we take for granted is. In quietly luminous language, Kathleen Finneran renders the emotional, spiritual, and physical terrain of family life -- its closeness and disconnection, its intimacy and estrangement--and pays tribute to the love between parents and children, brothers and sisters.
Ultimately, it is this love that sustains the Finnerans, for at the heart of THE TENDER LAND lies a catastrophic event: the suicide at fifteen of the author's younger brother after a public humiliation in junior high school. A gentle, handsome boy, Sean was a straight-A student and gifted athlete, especially treasured by every member of his family. Masterfully, the book interweaves past and present, showing how inseparable they are, and how the long accumulation of love and memory helps the Finnerans survive their terrible loss.
THE TENDER LAND is a testament to the always complicated ways in which we love one another. In the end, the Finnerans are a family much like the reader's own: like every other family, like no other family.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 06/11/2003
ISBN: 9780618340743
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 8.61h x 5.51w x 0.76d
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Great resource for any student, young or old. Solid advice and support continues with bonuses after you read with links and resources. Even some one on one with the author, worth much more than the initial cost of the book. Very informative and uplifting. The author wants to make your career choice path easier. A must have for college bound students. It’s like finding a treasure map to all the right ideas! Front to back a super read. I purchased the physical copy and plan to share it with a high school student.
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What a great resource for young people tackling the seemingly impossible task of figuring out what they want to do with their lives. Facing this challenge can be overwhelming, but this book offers practical advice and insight to navigate these uncharted waters.
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Really great book. Highly recommend. Just read it and passed along to my son who is entering junior year in college. Everything in the book still applies to college students as well. Useful QR codes throughout book.
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