Sisterchicks in Wooden Shoes!

Economy got you down? Longing for an adventure but don't know where to go? Then grab Robin Jones Gunn's new novel, Sisterchicks in Wooden Shoes!

Summer and Noelle have been pen pals since childhood, though they have never personally met. After forty years, both have families with grown children. One lives in the United States and the other in the Netherlands. After a recent medical exam, Summer gets a call from her doctor's office saying her mammogram test result was abnormal. The doctor wants her to come in for a biopsy. Reeling from this news, and harboring fear because of her mother's early death, Summer reacts by doing an inexplicable thing: she emails Noelle and asks if the next week is a good time to visit! Off she flies to the Netherlands to fulfill a life-long dream of meeting face to face.

The two spend a delightful week, not strangers because of years of correspondence, but finally able to fill in the missing physical pieces of voice, clothing, manners, etc. Their week together, each gently probing and reacting to one another, causes internal emotional barriers to be broken, healing to take place, and more awareness of God working and weaving their lives.

Some tidbits:
(page 106 - Summer) "I learned something important about myself in that moment. I like to be in control...At the foundation of my need for control was the thought that it was up to me to make things run smoothly or at least make them go the way I wanted them to go...I was embarrassed by my need to be in control...That embarrassed me because I knew that in many cases controlling could be the opposite of trusting."
(page 115 - Summer) "I've probably even memorized it [the verse] at some point. But I want to hold onto it...There's a difference for me between memorizing something and really holding on to it in my heart." "Ah." Noelle's voice softened. "You want to own the truth and not just rent the words."

Gunn's first person style in Sisterchicks in Wooden Shoes makes for a very personal treat. Picking up the book, I was immediately drawn into the story just as if it was actually taking place.
I don't think you will be disappointed.


2009 paperback from Multnomah.
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I have one copy to give away.