Sittin' in the Front Pew
A Novel
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4.7 • 9 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
From the author of the national bestseller The Shirt off His Back comes a novel about love, family, and honoring loved ones
Death brings about strange emotions, and people’s true colors start to show. Glynda Naylor discovers this when she gets the call that her father has died suddenly and she must fly from Los Angeles to Baltimore to bury him. Her beloved daddy, Edward Naylor, raised his four young daughters after their mother's death, and was the perfect father, brother, fiancé, and friend to those who loved him. As friends and family gather to pay tribute to this pillar of the community, Glynda and her sisters begin to search for answers about who the real Edward Naylor was. Their father was a good man, without question, but he also took a secret to his grave. What happens when his secret shows up for the funeral?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Brown's sophomore effort explores the upheavals that a father's death triggers for his grown daughters. Narrator Glynda has just passed the bar exam in L.A. when she receives the dreaded late-night phone call. Drawing on the strength of her plucky best friend, Rico, she flies to Baltimore, where the family is gathering to bury Edward Zachary Naylor. Tears fall and personalities clash as Glynda and her siblings Renee, Collette and Dawn bicker relentlessly over funeral arrangements. The battle lines are drawn, with Renee and Collette on one side and Dawn and Glynda on the other. All are pretty annoying, but the penny-pinching, malicious Collette is just too wrong to be believed. They find plenty to fight about: should their father's fianc e, Estelle, be involved in the planning? Who is the mysterious Nina, and why is she in the will? Did Viagra kill Daddy? Who gets to ride in the limo? One has to wonder about an author who names a character Uncle Thomas and has him utter lines like "I know dey's da fancy ones, ain't dey?" but he turns out to be the voice of reason. Thomas and the other secondary characters are affable enough, but it is hard to feel for the petty, selfish sisters. Their story is little more than an extended catfight, but Brown (The Shirt off His Back) gets credit for slipping in some laughs and tenderness along the way. 7-city author tour.
