Just like in my dream, I was drowning and nobody even noticed.
Every morning, Carmen Hart pastes on her made-for-TV smile and broadcasts the weather. She’s the Florida panhandle’s favorite meteorologist, married to everyone’s favorite high school football coach. They’re the perfect-looking couple, live in a nice house, and attend church on Sundays. From the outside, she’s a woman who has it all together. But on the inside, Carmen Hart struggles with doubt. She wonders if she made a mistake when she married her husband. She wonders if God is as powerful as she once believed. Sometimes she wonders if He exists at all. After years of secret losses and empty arms, she’s not so sure anymore.
Until Carmen’s sister—seventeen year old runaway, Gracie Fisher—steps in and changes everything. Gracie is caught squatting at a boarded-up motel that belongs to Carmen’s aunt, and their mother is off on another one of her benders, which means Carmen has no other option but to take Gracie in. Is it possible for God to use a broken teenager and an abandoned motel to bring a woman’s faith and marriage back to life? Can two half-sisters make each other whole?
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Summary
Imagine the panic; drowning in a relentless onslaught of waves, unable to reach the one and only lifeline, reliving the horror in nightmares over and over and over again. In more ways than one, Carmen Hart is submerged; in grief, in depression, in futility, and in perspective. Her public self is amazingly flawless; married to a wonderful man, living in a beautiful home and enjoying the job of a lifetime; but on the inside? Carmen is a hollow shell, faith abandoned, and beginning to crumble. Gracie Fisher is determined to run; away from a mother who cannot stay sober, away from teachers who do not want to understand her and away from a selfinflicted barrage of selfcondemnation. When Gracie and Carmen reunite on the grounds of an old abandoned family motel, they rediscover sisterhood in a way that only God above could orchestrate. Their journey, a dance with many movements and long pauses, includes two men, a beloved aunt and a passage through a \"valley of dry bones\". \"The Art of Losing Yourself\" is not only well written, it demonstrates this author's ability to write stories of significance.
Drug & Alcohol: The mother of one of the main characters is an alcoholic, her attempts at sobriety are futile, but there is not violent behavior involved, just poor parenting.