The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate

Available on Amazon

Rating (1-5) - 📘📘📘
Genre - Women's Domestic Life Fiction, Mother and Children Fiction
Format - Hardcover
Length - 400 pages


*Amazon Blurb*

Louisiana, 1875: In the tumultuous era of Reconstruction, three young women set off as unwilling companions on a perilous quest: Hannie, a freed slave; Lavinia, the pampered heir to a now destitute plantation; and Juneau Jane, Lavinia’s Creole half sister. Each carries private wounds and powerful secrets as they head for Texas, following roads rife with vigilantes and soldiers still fighting a war lost a decade before. For Lavinia and Juneau Jane, the journey is one of stolen inheritance and financial desperation, but for Hannie, torn from her mother and siblings before slavery’s end, the pilgrimage west reignites an agonizing question: Could her long-lost family still be out there? Beyond the swamps lie the limitless frontiers of Texas and, improbably, hope.

Louisiana, 1987: For first-year teacher Benedetta Silva, a subsidized job at a poor rural school seems like the ticket to canceling her hefty student debt—until she lands in a tiny, out-of-step Mississippi River town. Augustine, Louisiana, is suspicious of new ideas and new people, and Benny can scarcely comprehend the lives of her poverty-stricken students. But amid the gnarled live oaks and run-down plantation homes lie the century-old history of three young women, a long-ago journey, and a hidden book that could change everything.

*My Review* 

 

After reading and loving Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate, I was really looking forward to this one. The books goes back and forth between 1875 (with the main character being Hannie) and 1987 (with the main character being Benedetta). I enjoyed the current chapters much more that the ones set in 1875. At first they both started out really interesting, but then the things that kept happening in 1875 just seemed to be way to much a coincidence and just lost my attention. The 1987 chapters, though somewhat predictable, were very interesting to see how someone can piece things together about what seems like another world.