Shadow Ranch: A Novel

By Jo-Ann Mapson

Book Overview

The death of Lainie's four-year-old son had affected her marriage as well as the lives of her grandfather and her brother. This novel tells of love, children and the way tragedy affects several... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060172169
• ISBN13: 9780060172169
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 375 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.3" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Heartwarming, 10 hankie story

Once again, Jo-Ann Mapson wrings out your heart in this story of the Carpenters, Bop the grandfather, Lanie, his granddaughter, trying to recover from depression after losing her 4 year old son to the same heart disease that took her fathers life, and her brother Russell, a hippie throwback facing his own romantic troubles and trying to strum his troubles away on his guitars. None of them have healed from the loss of Spencer, Lanie's 4 year old, until Bop meets an ex-stripper with a heart of gold that helps to heal the rift between grandfather and grandkids. As a mother, I couldn't help but cry while I read the book and felt how painful it would be to lose your child.

A sensitive look at people who find love at different ages

Have you ever had a book come along that you were "meant" to read? This past summer I saw Shadow Ranch at my local book store and bought it because I knew that it would be about life in Southern California, where I've always lived. It turned out to be the perfect book for me. I had just started a relationahip with an "older man," and along came this book about love and life and more importantly hope. A mature love affair can be a wonderful thing