The Great Wherever, by Shannon Sanders
This is my first experience reading anything by this author, and I was pleased with her style. Her characters were mostly likeable and their motives and dialogue seem believable and natural. This novel contains more than one story. It is a family saga, a historical novel, and a bit of a mysterious ghost story. The reader learns more about the ghostly narrator as the stories unfold. Aubrey Lamb, a young woman who seems to have her hands full, emotionally and vocationally, is introduced to us by an unnamed, ghostly narrator. Aubrey's life is depicted in a way that I found to be quite engaging. When Aubrey begins to get emails from relatives she was barely aware of, talking about a land inheritance in Tennessee, she embarks on a bit of an odyssey that will educate her about her roots and change her life. The history of the African American Lamb family, from the time Thomas Lamb first bought this farm and built his house, is fascinating. Thomas was resourceful,...