Susan Meissner has done it again. Her newest book, White Picket Fences, is another perfect little nugget of fiction with deliciously interwoven lives and upside-down, twisty-turny storylines. It is a story of the deconstruction of a family in a most unusual way and the rebuilding of those lives through forgiveness.

Amanda Janvier has good intentions when she takes in her brother's daughter, Tally, when her brother disappears again. However, the life that she believed she was living, the one with a solid and supportive family, the very life she was offering to Tally, (surrounded by the proverbial white picket fence), begins to unravel in unusual and unexpected ways right before her eyes. 

How God's direction and guidance leads each family member to His grace and mercy through a huge dose of forgiveness, creates a real page turner. Meissner is well becoming one of my favorite Christian fiction writers! I highly recommend this book to any reader.

This book can be purchased at http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl? isbn=978140007457&ref=externallink_wbp_whitepicketfences_sec_0916_01.

This book is provided by Random House.

c11/09/2009 M. LaPointe