We Never Asked for Wings - Hardcover

Diffenbaugh, Vanessa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1447294491 ISBN 13: 9781447294498

Publisher: Mantle, 2015

Synopsis

The international bestseller from the author of The Language of Flowers

How far would you go for your children?

Would you lie for them? Flee with them? Let someone else mother them if you thought they would do a better job?

As a single parent, Letty does everything for her two children - apart from raise them. Being a mother terrifies her more than she can admit, and so she's always let her mother take that role. When Maria Elena ups and leaves, however, Letty has to confront her fears and become the parent she doesn't think she can be.

Even as she tries to give her children a future, Letty's teenage son, Alex, struggles to forgive his mother for choices she made in the past. But he and Letty are not so dissimilar, and both are prepared to risk everything for those they love.

Honest and compelling, We Never Asked for Wings is about family; it's about the decisions we take, the mistakes we make, the people we trust, and, above all, how - and where - we find love.

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Review

I was hooked from the first breathtaking pages of We Never Asked for Wings, caring about this exquisitely vulnerable family, hoping right along with them on every page that each heart-rending, impossible choice would lead them somewhere better together (Lisa Genova, New York Times bestselling author of Still Alice)

A gripping, heartfelt exploration of a mother's love, resilience and redemption (Family Circle)

Deftly blends family conflict with reassurance: Wings is like Parenthood with class and immigration issues added for gravitas (People (Book of the Week))

This poignant story will stay in readers' hearts long after the last page. . . . Moving without being maudlin, this story avoids the stereotypes in its stark portrayal of mothers who just want the best for their children (RT Book Reviews (Top Pick))

Diffenbaugh is a storyteller of the highest order: her simple but poetic prose makes even this most classically American story sing with a special kind of vulnerable beauty (Bustle)

Diffenbaugh delivers a heartwarming journey that mixes redemption and optimistic insight [and] confirms her gift for creating shrewd, sympathetic charmers (Kirkus Reviews)

We Never Asked for Wings propels us into a mother's heart as she and her family travel down a rocky path to understanding and forgiveness. With breathtaking imagery and lyrical prose, Diffenbaugh makes Letty's growth from a troubled young mother to a responsible woman who learns to put her children first, but also allows herself the possibility of love, entirely believable. Hers is a hard-won victory you will cheer even as you wish this graceful, moving book would never end (Melanie Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator’s Wife)

Book Description

From the bestselling author of The Language of Flowers, a novel about bad choices, second chances, and finding love in the most unexpected places

About this edition

• Publisher: Mantle
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1447294491
• ISBN 13: 9781447294498
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320