Feeney
Michele M. Feeney
Award-winning Author of Like Family
The next book in the Like Family series is on its way. Like Home, deepens the story of Mollie, Tom, and Cecilia in a powerful tale of family and hope.
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Like Home
Mollie Crowley Reid, a schoolteacher, lives in rural Michigan with her husband, Tom, a store owner and farmer, and their adopted daughter, Cecilia, an art student. In the depths of the Great Depression, Mollie receives unexpected news that impacts the future of her family and makes the threats to their economic well-being even more daunting.
Facing these new challenges, Mollie fights to maintain her beloved career, her home, her health, and her family, all the while reaching out to help those around her as best she can. Cecilia, orphaned during the influenza epidemic of 1918, seeks a connection with her biological family and her identity as a student and artist. Tom, with sometimes crushing responsibility, fights to maintain his livelihood and mental health, make sense of turbulent politics, and extend compassion and assistance in his community.
Through trials of illness, financial hardship, unsettling times, and family displacement, they discover home is not a place but rather the people who choose to love and support each other through life’s unexpected turns. And family, they learn, is built on shared struggles and love.
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"Michele Feeney's Like Family is a warmhearted, well-told tale of the loving bonds that can arise when good people reach across the barriers of prejudice, and limiting societal roles in response to human need. Set during the flu epidemic of 1918 in a rural Michigan town, Feeney expertly draws the characters as they cope with an orphaned girl, a frightening epidemic, cultural differences, and rigid expectations of a young independent teacher. The fears, and the divisions sustained by powerful people in a small town ultimately give way to the bravery and loyalty of its best citizens in this timeless story . A wonderful read."
- Barbara Stark-Nemon, Author of Even in Darkness
Reviews
"This is a heart-warming story about the different ways family can be defined. The story follows Mollie, a strong independent woman during a time when women were not seen or appreciated as such. She is ambitious and complex as we get insight into her struggles to make challenging decisions regarding Cecilia, her mom, and the community at large. I loved getting to live within her perspective and watch her fight for what she cared about. I would highly recommend this book, especially to those interested in history, strong women, and unique ways to define a family."
- Anna, Reader
"This was a wonderful story about relationships of a teacher, her mother and an orphaned girl during a troubling time of sickness (not unlike what the world experienced with Covid). The book explores sicknes, death and love. There is also an aspect of a male doctor trying to protect his power and thereby showing his prejudices. The author writes in a very descriptive manner and it is very easy to picture the small farming community in Michigan with it's farmhouse, cemetery, etc. I was sad for the book to end and look forward to reading another book by this author."
- Pete, Reader
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