I just finished reading a wonderful novel by Victoria Foyt, VALENTINE TO FAITH, about a journey of healing over the course of four generations of a west Florida family. Set on insular Sanibel Island, VALENTINE is a story of mother-daughter love, romances bad and good, and the powerful ideas that hold sway over people’s lives, coloring the choices they make like an invisible hand on the steering wheel.
Foyt is a master story-teller. She writes in a natural voice, her prose vanishing into the fabric of the exotic world she has created. Her pacing is terrific too, now languid and atmospheric, now edge-of-your-seat gripping. It’s a great read, but that’s not why I’m mentioning it here. Foyt’s subject — trauma and the journey of healing through the generations of a family — is what I write about as well, and anyone reading this blog might want to know about her book. Here the link to a short review that provides a bit more detail: https://readerviewsarchives.wordpress.com/2020/12/31/reviewfoytvalentinetofaith/
I’d love to know what you think…