The Freedom of a Tangled Vine
Heather Tierney, 2014
Wise Ink Press
272 pp.
ISBN-13: 9781940014104
Summary
Two women. Two generations. Two different concepts of truth.
Photographs of a stranger are found in her mother’s jewelry box. A small town whispers about the baby with auburn hair.
With her daughter’s uncovering of a long-held family secret, Alina is forced to reopen the wounds she had hidden for more than forty years. Now, with her family as the audience, Alina must give breath to fragments of her life she had drowned, and unravel what she had twisted into truth.
The Freedom of a Tangled Vine is the story of one family’s discovery of what lies between memory and reality. And of the intricate ties that define and embrace us.
Told through both Alina’s and her daughter’s perspectives and covering different time-frames, the stories unweave the past—and braid together the present. In doing so, both women discover that it is not what is said, but rather what is felt, that creates the meaning and beauty of family. (From the publisher.)