MY FATHER'S HOUSE is at once a terrible account of a woman's coming of age and a lyric story of love and forgiveness.
This is one woman's compelling tale of love and survival as she finds her way back home to who she's meant to be . . . in her father's house."...had it not been for Annie Ruth, I would have ended up right there rocking on the front porch ...
She was a beautiful child, a star student who ran for student council president, led the cheerleading squad, went steady with the right boy and married him, her proud father...
A young girl growing up in the forties on a vast estate near Munich lives a life charmed by privilege yet scarred by place and time. Everyday routine is upended...
Renamed "Carl Arthur Gustafson" at Ellis Island, he begins a new life in Forestville/Bristol Connecticut where he falls in love with and marries Jennie Anderson.
The last scene sees Joe rushing home to pack the truck for a new life in California and his last defiant act is to take an axe to the tree house. This is the same day that the infamous Wall Street Crash took place.
Set against the backdrop of a decaying farmhouse and fragile family connections, My Father's House is a powerful, lyrical story of loss and regret, through which Bethany Dawson reveals an affecting compassion for the profound, and often ...