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02622aam a2200313 4500 001 AD85A270F6A711ECBB62E21C21ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220628010047 008 220301s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 1977243681 020 $a 9781977243683 040 $d TxAuBib $d SILO 100 1 $a Kephart-Nash, L. 245 12 $a A Spacious Place : $b "You have not given me into the hands of the enemy but have set my feet in a spacious place." Psalm 31:8 / $c L. Kephart-Nash. 264 1 $a [Parker, CO] : $b Outskirts Press, $c 2021. 300 $a 218 p. : $b ill. ; $c 23 cm. 500 $a Gift from the Rebecca Pollard Study Club by way of the author, L. Kephart-Nash. 500 $a MAR22. 520 $a A wicked and intriguing tale of abuse, revenge, and murder... Sitting in my comfortable kitchen, in my peaceful home looking at the new coffee mug with the humorous message, I anticipated nothing more than a good cup of coffee to start off the day. What happened was, the message to put "someone in a book and kill them" made me laugh. At first. Until a fifty-year-old memory replayed itself and with it came sadness and regret that I hadn't - didn't - couldn't - wouldn't - ? help a beaten, sad young mother, whose name I couldn't even remember. Whose daughters seemed traumatized, and whose son was already displaying his father's brutish behavior. I learned something a few days ago from my youngest daughter, Kimberly - who is a grandmother herself now. When she read the finish of this book, in a shocked voice, she told me, "I remember that boy!" - and it is her memory I have recorded in the end of this book. I have written from my imagination about something that is not fiction: abuse. And how it's handed down generation after generation, criminal, evil, an abomination. I have never walked in the shoes of someone who has suffered abuse and I apologize for presuming to write as if I know what they have endured. I do not know, beyond what I have seen, heard, read about. And just that seems too much. In this story I gave the name "Ted" to that brutish husband-father, and lavished every desired worldly gift on him, and then I killed him. I wish I could have helped that young mother years ago. 541 $d 20220301. 650 $a Revenge $v Fiction. 650 $a Murder $v Fiction. 650 $a Abused wives $v Fiction. 650 $a Family life_vFiction. 655 7 $a Suspense fiction $v Fiction. 700 $a Hatala, Daniel W., $e illustrator. 941 $a 1 952 $l KJPF566 $d 20220628010949.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=AD85A270F6A711ECBB62E21C21ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search