Beautiful Dreamers

De: Minrose Gwin

Narrado por: Adenrele Ojo

From Minrose Gwin, award-winning author of The Accidentals, comes Beautiful Dreamers, a story of a precocious teen and her mother, their gay best friend, and the con man who unravels their family.

It’s 1953 when Memory Feather and her mother, Virginia, are welcomed back home to the Mississippi Gulf Coast community of Belle Cote by Virginia’s childhood friend Mac McFadden, whose verve and energy buoy the recently divorced Virginia to embrace this new chapter. Memory (“Mem”) is unlike other girls: she is attuned to the voices of plants and animals and is missing two fingers on her twisted left hand. The three of them knit their lives together and become a close, though unconventional, family.

While Mac’s wealth, brains, and good humor have allowed him to carve out a niche in Belle Cote, his position as a gay man active in the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement exposes him to censure, harassment, and even brutality. When the unscrupulous and charismatic Tony Amato arrives in Belle Cote as Mac’s “guest,” he sets in motion a series of events that will shatter familial bonds and forever change Mem’s life. Now, an adult Mem recounts the story of the scars Tony left in her teenage years, confronting her culpability in the disastrous events of that final summer.

Sweeping, dramatic, and vividly rendered, Beautiful Dreamers is a diverse portrait of the American South.

©2024 Minrose Gwin (P)2024 Dreamscape Media

Beautiful and poetically written

Beautifully written story of the Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf Coast during a time a great upheaval and civil rights. When modern society is just beginning to recognize our terrible prejudices and start to shake them off. The author is incredibly descriptive of the landscape and the “feel” of the area, the way she writes the details of emotions and places is poetic. I knew exactly where the characters were, how they felt. I was totally immersed in a time and place that I thought I knew but didn’t.

Outstanding

I pre ordered this book because I have listened to other books by this author. It did not disappoint. Works like this is why my favorite genre is historical fiction. This is a captivating story with deeply developed characters and history. I highly recommend it. The narrator did an excellent job.

Engaging characters

Beautiful Dreamers provides A unique but convincing take on the meaning of family and what it means to care for one another.