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BOOK REVIEW: Even Now
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by: Laura V. Hilton Dancing Word Reviewer
Title: Even Now Author: Karen Kingsbury Publisher: Zondervan ISBN: 0-310-24753-3 Genre: Inspirational/Women/Fiction
Seventeen-year-old Lauren Anderson has been in love with Shane Galanter for as long as she can remember. Their parents are best friends, their dads work together, and they are discussing marriage as soon as they finish college. They only have one year left in high school. Then tragedy strikes and Lauren learns she is pregnant. Shane wants to do the right thing and marry her, but he’s a minor and can’t marry without his parents’ permission.
Shane’s parents insist that Lauren give her baby up for adoption. After all, the kids are too young to have babies of their own. But Lauren and Shane refuse. They want to keep their baby. And even if they can’t marry right now, someday they still want to and will want their baby with them. But Shane’s parents sell their business and move to California. Lauren’s family move to a Chicago suburb. And the phone numbers are unlisted. The families didn’t exchange addresses, part of an elaborate scheme to keep Lauren and Shane apart.
Eighteen-year-old Emily Anderson has grown up under the love and care of her doting grandparents. She never knew her parents; after all, her mother abandoned her when she was only weeks old. Now she wonders what happened to her mom and dad so she starts doing an internet search. Will she be able to find on the internet what a private investigator tried and failed many times through the years—to find out what happened to Lauren Anderson?
Written in true Karen Kingsbury style Even Now is a book you’ll want to read with a box of tissues handy. Kingsbury has the gift of drawing readers in and making them a part of the story and living it out with the characters. I felt for Lauren and Shane as they faced the fear of becoming unwed parents and mourned with them as their parents drove them apart. I hoped that Emily would be able to find her mother and discover why she was abandoned at a young age. And I was almost tempted to pray that the families would find healing for the years of heartbreak they suffered.
Pick up a copy of Even Now at your favorite Christian bookseller. This is a book you won’t want to miss. To quote an old coffee commercial, it is good to the last page. Readers guide is included at the back of the book, making Even Now ideal for small group discussions. $14.99. 352 pages.
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