Rush Home Road by Lori Lansens

Rush Home Road by Lori Lansens

When 5-year old Sharla Cody is dumped on the doorstep of Addy Shadd, a 70-year-old woman living in a trailer park, Addy does not know how completely her life is about to change. She's hardly used to company and the troubled Sharla is not the sweet, beautiful angel she had envisioned. Over time, Addy and Sharla form a bond that neither of them expected-and Sharla begins to undergo a transformation under Addy's patient and loving care. But much to Addy's surprise and dismay, Sharla's presence brings back memories of her own tumultuous childhood. As she reminisces about her days growing up in Rusholme, a town settled by fugitive slaves in the mid 1800s, she remembers her family and her first love and confronts the painful experience that drove her away from home, never to return.
Brilliantly structured and achingly lyrical, this beautiful first novel by the award-winning author of The Girls tells the story of two unlikely people thrown together who transform each other's lives forever.

Before authoring her first novel, Rush Home Road, LORI LANSENS was a successful screenwriter whose work was translated into twelve languages and published in fifteen countries. Her second novel, The Girls, was a worldwide bestseller and a Richard & Judy book club pick in the United Kingdom, selling 300,000 copies. Her third book, The Wife's Tale, was a national bestseller, as was her fourth novel, The Mountain Story, which was praised by the Globe and Mail as an almost heartbreaking and forceful feat of narrative. Her sixth novel, This Little Light, continued the astonishing pattern by becoming a national success. Lansens, who was born and reared in Chatham, Ontario, now resides in California.