I had never heard of Jamie Langston Turner until Bethany House sent me her newest novel, Winter Birds, to review. I am not on Ms. Turner’s payroll nor is Bethany House paying me. So, I can say without guile or reservations, Winter Birds is a fine book. The characters are interesting and multi-faceted. Jamie Langston Turner creates well-rounded, believable characters, and Winter Birds is a character-driven novel. Although this is a book espousing Christian values, none of its characters are perfect or even always likeable. The story unfolds through the thoughts /5(78). Winter Birds was also named as a best book for the year by both Christianity Today and Publishers Weekly. Jamie has been married for 50 years to Daniel Turner, who is retired from the music faculty at Bob Jones University in Greenville, SC, and they have a son, Jess, who is a composer, a beautiful daughter-in-law named Maisha, and two wonderful grandchildren, Carolyn Svana, 12, and Charles .
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I had never heard of Jamie Langston Turner until Bethany House sent me her newest novel, Winter Birds, to review. I am not on Ms. Turner’s payroll nor is Bethany House paying me. So, I can say without guile or reservations, Winter Birds is a fine book. The characters are interesting and multi-faceted. "Turner, who has taught literature herself for many years, writes with elegant precision and the leisurely pacing of the book perfectly captures the lengthened days of the aging. Understated and unsentimental, Winter Birds is a quietly memorable novel about quiet grace."--(Peter J. Leithart, Touchstone). Jamie Langston Turner creates well-rounded, believable characters, and Winter Birds is a character-driven novel. Although this is a book espousing Christian values, none of its characters are perfect or even always likeable. The story unfolds through the thoughts of Sophie, a bitter old woman who is waiting to die.
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