Coming Up for Air: Library Edition

from Anansilaw

This is a story about choices, discovery and saving your own life. Her mother's sudden death sends Ellie on a journey to uncover a pivotal period in her mother's life and to reexamine her own. At age nine, Ellie re-wrote Cinderella - tired of waiting for her prince to come, she saves herself. Yea...

from thehistorychic

Bought for Myself Overall Rating 4.25 Character Rating 4.25 Story Rating 4.25 NOTE: I admit I picked up this book because I met Patti Callahan Henry at a Book Signing. She was funny, genuine, and personable---all attributes that come across in her writing. It was a great venture outside my normal...

from Beamis12

I just love southern novels, the freshness and the mysteries of family. When Ellie's mother dies she finds her diary and secrets in her mother's past that she needs answers to because she feels that she never really knew her mother. This leads her back to a childhood love and a beach house, where...

from jbarr5

Coming Up For Air by Patti Callahan Henry Story starts out with Elle and she's very busy even with her daughter now in college, her husband busy at work and golfing with her dad. Her mother keeps her busy with committees, etc til the day she just dies. Story goes back in time where we learn of he...

from lindap69

I really liked this story and the way Patti Henry told it. I liked the way she interwove Ellie's story with that of Ellie's mother, the essence of small town and old society, the insights into love, marriage, the human heart and soul. This is a story that will stay with me for a long time.