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FINDING UTOPIA : TALES FROM THE SABINAL CANYON - Linda Jones Weber

FINDING UTOPIA

By: Linda Jones Weber

Hardcover | 27 November 2024 | Edition Number 2

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FINDING UTOPIA tells a touching story of love and loss, dreams realized, and dreams cut short, woven through the lens of a misguided love that shatters lives and leaves a town in ashes. Set in Utopia, Texas, in the rural Hill Country between 1917 and 1926; the characters live on in memory long after you reach the end.

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"Finding Utopia" is a romantic thriller inspired by true events. Maizelle Clarke, the town doctor's daughter, elopes with Will Jones, an auto mechanic, against her father's wishes. He disowns her and cuts her off from her siblings and the family she loves. Embraced by her new husband's mother, she learns how to be a wife and mother at the older woman's elbow. The young couple creates an idyllic life for themselves and their growing family until tragedy strikes, throwing the mother of three into a deep depression that threatens her marriage, her family, and all she holds dear. As she struggles to climb out of the darkness, another baby is born, which gives her hope and a reason to live and repair her fractured relationships. As she begins to move forward again, misguided love brings a night of terror to the community, and a dark secret threatens the family and the community's very existence. A story of deep love, enduring friendship, loss, and redemption, FINDING UTOPIA is a tender, gritty story carrying readers to a surprising climax.

Industry Reviews

Finding Utopia swept me away right from the start. Its endearing characters and

richly drawn setting come together in a story that is both heartwarming and

haunting. Drawing on her own family's history, Linda Jones Weber weaves a

tale of love and sorrow, of dreams cut short and dreams that endure. One of those 

rare books that stay with you long after the end. Finding Utopia is a

Remarkable debut!

                                                Amanda Skenandore, bestselling author

                                                of The Medicine Woman of Galveston

Once I got started I could not put this book down. Weber pulls you in and

Doesn't let you go until the powerful, emotional conclusion...and not even

then! This is a gripping tale of two young people in the early 1900's and Utopia, 

the small town in Texas that is the backdrop of their story.

Expertly told, Weber sprinkles her tale with wonderful details about life a

hundred years ago as she weaves the threads of her story seamlessly. The 

main characters elicit empathy, and the supporting cast rounds out the book

with villains and people who are human and wholly relatable.

The story of Will and Maidee will stay with me for a long, long time. I highly

recommend Finding Utopia and look forward to more by this talented author.

                                    --Griffin Brady Historical Fiction author

                                    of the Winged Warrior Series

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