Home in the Morning

A Novel

De: Mary Glickman

Narrado por: Donna Postel

A powerful debut from a new literary talent, this novel tells the story of a Jewish family confronting the tumult of the 1960s - and the secrets that bind its members together.

Jackson Sassaport is a man who often finds himself in the middle. Whether torn between Stella, his beloved and opinionated Yankee wife, and Katherine Marie, the African American girl who first stole his teenage heart; or between standing up for his beliefs and acquiescing to his prominent Jewish family’s imperative to not stand out in the segregated South, Jackson learns to balance the secrets and deceptions of those around him. But one fateful night in 1960 will make the man in the middle reconsider his obligations to propriety and family, and will start a chain of events that will change his life and the lives of those around him forever.

Home in the Morning follows Jackson’s journey from his childhood as a coddled son of the Old South to his struggle as a young man eager to find his place in the civil rights movement while protecting his family. Flashing back and forth between Jackson's adult life as a successful lawyer and his youth, Mary Glickman’s riveting novel traces the ways that race and prejudice, family, and love intertwine to shape our lives.

©2010 Mary Glickman (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

Disappointed in the ending

My husband and I listened to this book on a 6-hour round trip road trip.
We were intrigued by the story line and the readers performance. Hanging on to every word, we anxiously anticipated the ending in hopes that the villain would get his comeuppance and the family secrets might be revealed to explain the biological origin of the villain.
Also the ending was unsatisfying because it didn’t go further to explain the results of a hearing that might allow a prisoner to go free. Disappointing.