Sarah Domet
Expected publication: October 4, 2016
In the vein of The Virgin Suicides, a dazzling debut novel about four girls inexplicably named Guinevere, all left by their parents to be raised by nuns, and the year in which their tightly knit Guinevere family implodes when four comatose soldiers arrive.
Vere, Gwen, Ginny, and Win come to The Sisters of the Supreme Adoration by different paths, delivered into the rigorous and austere care of Sister Fran. Each has their own complicated, heartbreaking story that they safeguard. But together they are the all powerful and confident The Guineveres, bound by the extraordinary coincidence of their names and girded against the indignities of their plain, sequestered lives. Together, they learn about God, history, and, despite the nuns' protestations, sex. They learn about the saints whose revival stories of faith and pain are threaded through their own. But above all, they plot their futures, when they can leave the convent and finally find a true home. But when four comatose soldiers, casualties of the War looming outside, arrive at the convent, The Guineveres’ friendship is tested in ways they never could have foreseen.
In The Guineveres, Sarah Domet navigates the wonder and tumult of girlhood, the families we yearn for and create. In prose shot through with beauty, Domet intertwines the ordinary and the miraculous, as The Guineveres discover what home really means. - from Goodreads
There is something about this book is so compelling, I think the connection between the girls most of all. Here's mine: http://editingeverything.com/blog/2016/09/21/waiting-wednesday-norse-mythology-neil-gaiman/
ReplyDeleteThe premise sounded so unique, and I'm looking forward to reading it!
DeleteThat cover is striking and although I might not have initially picked it up, it does sounds different. Thanks for sharing it!
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by!
DeleteThe comparison to The Virgin Suicides really intrigues me. That cover is awesome too. :) My WoW
ReplyDeleteYeah, I have to admit, the cover is what drew me in initially!
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