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by: Francine Rivers
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780842334983
ISBN: 084233498X
Label: Tyndale House Publishers
Manufacturer: Tyndale House Publishers
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: January 10, 2004
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
Sales Rank: 8992
Studio: Tyndale House Publishers
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Product Description:
Now available in softcover!
Award-winning author Francine Rivers opens a world full of vibrant characters with a powerful story of hope. In this stunning new novel, Francine explores the new life that love can bring to a decaying garden of broken relationships. Through the lives of 84-year-old Leota, her granddaughter, and a college student with all the answers, Francine leads readers to ponder the value of life and truth in a way that only she can.
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 softcover
Amazon.com Review:
Acclaimed Christian fiction writer Francine Rivers's (The Atonement Child) Leota's Garden uses the image of the garden as a metaphor for the cycles of life that the characters experience. While the story revolves around a number of lives, they are all connected through Leota--an 84-year-old grandmother--and her garden, which was once a place of beauty and hope but has in recent years gone to ruin. Beginning in desolation--Leota has been neglected by her self-centered daughter, whose obsession with getting her own daughter into the best college has driven them apart--the novel slowly shows the weaving together of lives in the mysterious ways of grace: a proud and narrow-minded college student ends up learning more from Leota than he'd bargained for, and the granddaughter Leota had never been allowed to know shows up looking for some answers, and even more, looking for Leota herself. A garden blooms, the novel suggests, by getting one's hands a little dirty doing the hard work of love. --Doug Thorpe
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A mixed bag
What did I love about this book? I loved that Leota was so real--an elderly woman with a heart, soul and backbone. I loved that she had a granddaughter that came and administered to her at a lonely time--without resentment. She truly rejoiced in serving her grandmother. Infact, I was inspired to do more to reach out to my family after reflecting on some of the tender passages of sacrifice and selflessness on the part of Anne-Lynn toward her grandmother. However...
There were also some ... Read More
Rating: - Garden Analogy
Leota's Garden was a sweet story that revolves around Leota's Garden. The story is about a 84 year old neglected woman whose garden is neglected as her. She calls for help. A volunteer who is a college student learns more from Leota than he thought he would when he started volunteering to do a survey for a class. After being estranged from her family for many years her Granddaughter shows up and loves the garden as much as Leota does. Leota uses the garden to teach life lessons to the whole family ... Read More
Rating: - OK, tender, but not gripping.
Rivers has a gift, no doubt about it. But this story did not affect me as most of the others I have read.
Rating: - Sick twist
I was glued to this book for the two days it took me to read it so
you can imagine my utter shock and frustration when the book took a
twist turn at the end concerning Leota and a medical technician.
It was so unnecessary. It would have been nice for Leota and her daughter to reconcile or at LEAST die a normal peaceful death. I was very disappointed but overall enjoyed the dialogue throughout the book.
The Halloweeen "skit" was too drawn out for my liking but Leota ... Read More
Rating:  - I loved this sweet book!
Leota's Garden
I absolutely loved this book! I can't wait to read other books by Francine Rivers now. It was just the neatest portraial of a granddaughter's love for her grandmother.
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