{"id":1058,"date":"2013-03-14T17:40:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T22:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2013-03-02T17:42:14","modified_gmt":"2013-03-02T23:42:14","slug":"the-indelible-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/the-indelible-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"The Indelible Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Marianne K. Martin. The Indelible Heart.\u00a0Bywater Books, 2011. Paperback. 232p. $14.95 978-1-932859-775.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Sequel to Martin’s Love in the Balance<\/em>, this novel continues the stories of four characters introduced in the earlier book as well as introducing new women in these stories of friendship, second chances, love, and passion.<\/p>\n

Based on the true story of the May 5, 1992, murder of Susan Pittmann and her lesbian partner Christine Puckett by their homophobic neighbor James Brooks, Martin shows the ripple of this anti-gay event on the families and friends of the victims.<\/p>\n

In addition to Sharon’s struggles with her friends\u2019 murders, two other strongholds in their LGBT community, Sage and Deanne, are dealing with their own family problems, including a Native American daughter who is facing prejudice at school because of her heritage and her lesbian mothers. \u00a0 Sharon has also split with her previous lover and is with a new, younger lover, Kim who fails to understand Sharon’s loss. With many frustrations in her new relationship, Sharon is unable to deal with the \u201cor worse\u201d side of the partnership.<\/p>\n

When the killer asks for an early release date, Sharon’s friends worry that she will once again start drinking through her depression.<\/p>\n

Martin shows strong female characters striving to overcome adversity while supporting each other with strength and tough love. The characters draw in the reader through their suffering and triumphs.\u00a0 The emotions flowing throughout the novel ride on a roller coaster as the lives of the couples weave together.<\/p>\n

Those who like Fannie Flagg and the television show Army Wives will be drawn into this story.\u00a0 This book will be a good addition to any chick lit collection for adults or mature young adults especially those who like love scenes. (Reviewed from an advanced readers copy.)<\/p>\n

Reviewer: s.n.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Marianne K. Martin. The Indelible Heart.\u00a0Bywater Books, 2011. Paperback. 232p. $14.95 978-1-932859-775.   Sequel to Martin’s Love in the Balance, this novel continues the stories of four characters introduced in the earlier book as well as introducing new women in these stories of friendship, second chances, love, and passion. Based on the true story of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}