Book Review: Life in a Box by JoDee Neathery

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What can be more mysteries on Mystery Monday,

 than inheriting a box of old photos and journals?

Synopsis:

How much would you sacrifice to hide a secret? The answer reveals itself as Andee Camp, after inheriting a box of old photographs and journals, accepts a challenge from her mother to write a novel based on their family. What evolves is not only the fulfillment of a dream, but the reality of her relationship with her parents and theirs with each other. 

As Andee writes the stories of two sets of twins born on the same day seventeen hundred miles apart, the mysteries defining the Smith and Brown families become more poignant as the pieces in the complicated puzzle begin to fit together.

The very fabric of long-held truths unravel in a tapestry woven with love and betrayal, joy and tragedy, humor and melancholy. As a reader, if given the opportunity, would you like to examine your own life in a box?

Review:

It's hard to keep reminding yourself that this is a book based on ACTUAL history, and the author has such a deft touch with the narrative, that it reads like pure fiction. But fiction is never as messy, the chracters never as crazy as a dysfunctional family can be, or mysterious as real life! The book explores how lives can be so easily intertwines and how the echoes of those meetings, carry on down through generations. Unraveling the lines is half te fun, Neathery's great story is the other! This is fun read that might have you running and asking about your family's own history!

About the Author:

JoDee Neathery, drawing from her Southern California and Texas roots, plucked a few personalities off the family tree, encasing their world inside fictional events to create a literary novel. She spent hours savoring a suitcase full of old photographs and journals, realizing by discovering the past the present became relevant. "Every face and every word inside this treasure trove of antiquity told a story, and Life in a Box was born."