Loving Donovan - Softcover

Bernice L. McFadden

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1402561091 ISBN 13: 9781402561092

Publisher: Recorded Books

Synopsis

When you choose to love someone, you agree to take on all of their baggage, knowingly or not. The day Campbell chose to love Donovan was the day she took on the voice of ghost in his head, a domineering and ever present grandmother in his ear and a life time of watching his father just exist. Indeed, Campbell took on much more than she knew. Growing up, Campbell watched her father cheat on and leave his wife for another family. As a teen mother, Campbell watched her daughter's father leave her. As an adult, Campbell watched her best friend give herself away because the man she loved didn't love her enough. With all those factors working against her, it would be easy to write off men, to write off love altogether. Yet Campbell still believes in love and, though she's hesitant to seek it for herself, she's willing to take a chance. Donovan had no business looking for love. In all fairness, it feels like he knew that, but then he met Campbell and, for a time, logic and reasoning escaped him. Everyone is entitled to love, but Donovan had things in his past he needed to work through before bringing anyone else into the picture. Having been loved the wrong way in the past and the present, it's no wonder that he doesn't know how to accept being loved well and right. Though both Donovan and Campbell come from "broken homes," Donovan's demons are more difficult to overcome. In great part, it's because he's faced with one of them daily. We often hear or experience mothers raising their daughters and loving their sons. One of Donovan's biggest problems is that he's been raised by a weak father and an overbearing grandmother. Shrouded in her love for Donovan is a need to keep him broken down enough to stay with her and, should he find the strength to leave, playing on his insecurities and fears enough to make him stay.

About this edition

• Publisher: Recorded Books
• ISBN 10: 1402561091
• ISBN 13: 9781402561092
• Binding: Paperback