The Brushstroke Legacy (Crossings Book Club Edition)

by Lauraine Snelling

Hardcover, 2006

Status

Available

Call number

813.54

Publication

Waterbrook Press (2006)

Original publication date

2006-01

Description

Fiction. Literature. HTML:A heart-stirring story about a woman's journey to self-discovery through art and her family's history. Forbidden. Hidden. Denied. Can art be powerful enough to endure? Ragni Clauson�s work, relationships, and body all seem to be falling apart. And she isn�t convinced that spending her vacation fixing up her great-grandmother�s cabin and supervising her rebellious teenage niece, Erika, will offer any much-needed rejuvenation. As Ragni and Erika clean, they begin to uncover the secret paintings and life of Nilda, Ragni�s ancestor who lived in the cabin in the early 1900s. Ragni doesn�t know how much she has in common with her great-grandmother, but it becomes clear Nilda faced her own struggles. Taking care of home and menfolk, fighting off locusts, raising her daughter, and finding time to paint in the midst of it all were not easy tasks. Will Nilda�s passion for enduring art re-ignite Ragni�s artistic...… (more)

ISBN

0739476807 / 9780739476802

User reviews

LibraryThing member Maydacat
Two different stories emerge in this novel which blends historical fiction with the present day. Asked by her mother to see about a family cabin in desperate need of repair, Ragni encounters multiple problems. Alternating with this thread is one of Ragni’s great-grandmother and the difficulties
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she had in her life. We see what these two women had in common and how they grew as they coped with the life they had been dealt. An entertaining tale, but somewhat clichéd in the path it took to its conclusion.
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