It’s First Line Friday! That means it’s time to pick up the nearest book and quote the first line. Today I’m sharing from The Promised Land by Elizabeth Musser. Here’s the first line from the Chapter One:
Elizabeth Musser is a must-read author for me, and the fact this novel features the Camino brought it to the top of my to-read pile!
What’s the book nearest you, and what’s the first line?
About The Promised Land
With her oldest son taking a gap year in Europe, her aging father losing his sight and his memory, and her husband of twenty years announcing that he’s leaving her, Abbie Bartholomew Jowett is surrounded by overwhelming loss.
Desperate to mend her marriage and herself, she follows her son, Bobby, to walk the famed Camino pilgrimage. During their journey they encounter Rasa, an Iranian woman working in secret helping other refugees, and Caroline, a journalist who is studying pilgrims on the Camino while searching for answers from her broken past.
Each individual has their own reasons for the pilgrimage, but together they learn that the Camino strips you bare and calls you into deep soul-searching that can threaten all your best laid plans.
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Happy Friday! I’m currently reading The Kissing Tree which is a collection of four novellas by four authors. The novella I’m reading now is called Broken Limbs, Mended Hearts by Regina Jennings and the first line is: “Bella Eden had always known when it would happen – the day before her eighteenth birthday.”