A Place of Acceptance

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Summary: Relationships Gone Awry
Review: A Place of Acceptance, a story of loving family relationships gone awry, is a powerful novel that not only holds our interest but ties us intimately into a learning experience. We are learning unaware that we are being taught.
The characters are portrayed honestly and with tact. How does one handle such a problem? Any such scenario in a family is bound to cause problems especially severe when the members are blind to what is happening. And yet the author walks us through so graciously that we are caught up in the story.
We become the jury sifting the facts, even praying about the outcome. The tension builds as we sort the problem ourselves, wondering just how we would handle this if it were our family. The plot is intriguing, honest and down to earth. I would call this book a powerful read, a must read.


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Summary: Entertaining and readable, but has some errors
Review: I enjoyed this book, about a gay man who struggles for acceptance from his homophobic father. However, there were some errors in the book which I found distracting. For example, a whale is "in toe" (sic) behind a boat. Also, much of the action takes place in a hospital and there were numerous medical errors. For example, O positive blood is given to a AB negative child and a statement is made that this blood will be fine for him; in reality this transfusion would be sure to cause a massive transfusion reaction and might possibly kill the child. A person undergoes "graphs" (instead of "grafts") in a coronary bypass surgery because of blockages in his "descending aorta" instead of in his coronary arteries. A child falls from a tree sustaining a wound to his temple and punctures his carotid artery (which is nowhere near the temple.) The author could have been more careful researching these details before presenting them in the book.


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Summary: Finding our place...
Review: A friend of mine said she no longer reads adult ficition because it's depressing. I want to pass her a copy of A Place of Acceptance. The novel, like the cover, is full of light. While there are plenty of problems - old secrets, new ones, accidents, illness and the simple friction of life - every character in the novel does some growing. One leaves with the sense that with love, persistence and grace, all things will be well.