The Sunflower Sinner

By Cynthia Dennis

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0939391465
• ISBN13: 9780939391462
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Woodley Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Citizen of McPherson, Ks.

If I had not known the people in this personally it might not have been so interesting. I enjoyed it and it was fast reading. It explained a lot of things that were mysteries to most of us who lived near them.

Poignant and vivid

Cynthia Dennis' incredibly poignant, witty and descriptive writing took me on an emotional journey. This vivid, bittersweet memoir captivated me. I look forward to reading future works from this talented author.

The family is part of the brand

Sunflower Sinner wraps us into a rising political career from the outside- the man himself - Paul Lackie-- and from the inside, all the required family support mechanisms --loyalty, appearance, self-sacrifice. Even without the elements of murder, bribery and disgrace, it's hard to believe that any ambition can exist without creating dysfunction in any group of people supposed to be based primarily on love. The confusion and loyalty have a profound effect on his oldest daughter, Cynthia. Dennis excellently depicts a child's intense feeling and wishful thinking about the events to lift her father into the governorship. As this 2008 campaign escalates, the Sunflower Sinner will make you think more deeply about the families that must bend to the candidate's ambition.

another Glass Castle

A blurb on the back of the book suggests that the reviewer " couldn't lay the book down". I had the same experience, finishing just half in one siting and for lack of time reluctanly putting off to the next day reading the balance. Here is a dysfuntional family on the order of the one filling the pages of The Glass Castle. The telling of this story reflects truth and honesty and results in tale that would do justice to a novel of outright improbable ficton There is real author's talent showing in this first novel by Dennis.