Description
by
Kaye Park Hinckley (Author)
HUNGER IN THE HEART is set in 1955 as a young boy comes to terms with the consequences World War II has had on his beloved, shell-shocked, father is a decorated hero who stages continual games of war to train his son; his bigoted, alcoholic mother blames the misfortune in her marriage on the soldier whose life her husband saved; and his manipulative grandfather stirs up trouble between mother and son, until the boy must fight a personal war just to survive. When the boy’s father is suspiciously shot and killed, his grandfather accuses his daughter-in-law, and a bitter estrangement between the boy and his mother is set in motion, tempered only by the family gardener and a neighbor girl with family problems of her is a story, ultimately, of hope and love. How we find it and thrive in even the darkest circumstances.
Author Biography
Kaye Park Hinckley earned a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from Spring Hill College, in Mobile, Alabama. A former advertising agency owner, her fiction has appeared in several literary journals, including Dappled Things. She blogs at . She is the mother of five children and ten grandchildren. Other books include: Birds of a Feather Mary’s Mountain The Wind That Shakes the Corn: Memoirs of a Scots Irish Woman She Who Sees Beyond Upcoming Books: Bridgeman Burning: The Sins of a Southern Man, the sequel to A Hunger in the Heart
Number of Pages: 176Dimensions: 0.38 x 9 x 6 INPublication Date: April 10, 2018
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