It’s Saturday morning. High time for another installment in my occasional book recommendation series. But there is one very important book I haven’t yet told you much about.
Since that first announcement, you have been so supportive. So excited for me. So eager to read this book I have told you almost nothing about. I am grateful.
I want to tell you more.
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Let’s begin with the details, as if this were one of those announcements I once mailed after the birth of my four babies. Those easy statistics that tell you so much and so little.
Title: Roots and Sky: A Journey Home in Four Seasons
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Release date: February 2, 2016
Available for pre-order here:
Amazon Barnes & Noble ChristianBook.com
Pre-ordering is convenient for you but critical for the success of new books. Pre-orders tell the booksellers there is interest, and they will stock more copies before the release date. More copies on shelves and in-warehouse translates to more sales in those critical early days.
Thank you for every one of your pre-orders!
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What is Roots and Sky about?
This book is about our first year in an old farmhouse called Maplehurst. It begins when we came home to a house, but it describes a journey home.
This is a journey through autumn, winter, spring, and summer toward the home first made for us. The home that is in the process of being remade for us.
This dear, beautiful earth.
This dirt. These trees. Those flowers. And faces. And loves. And stars.
Jesus echoed the Psalms when he said that the meek shall inherit the earth. Roots and Sky is about seeking and receiving that inheritance.
It is for anyone who longs for home but worries we can never come home on this side of heaven.
Roots and Sky is about all the ways heaven comes to us.
Today.
In this place.
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Christie, I am so excited! I’m going to pre-order as soon as I post my comment! One of my favorite series of books is Madeleine L’Engle’s The Crosswicks Journals, because I love how it follows the seasons of the year and so much of it is grounded in her large Connecticut farmhouse and in memories of home. And my favorite novel is Howard’s End – again the house is so central to the story, and the concept of place explored so well. I can’t wait to read your book – all your blog posts have made me want more of your writing!
Erin, those are two of my most favorite books. I may not be in the same league as Forster or L’Engle, but Roots and Sky is definitely influenced by both. Can’t wait to share it with you.
Well, no wonder I’m so drawn to your writing!
I just pre-ordered your book. I am so looking forward to reading it. I have always longed to live in the country but life has placed me in the suburbs. It is here that I created a home for my children who are now grown and a place of love and security where they now return with their children.
It’s happening. It’s real. Can’t wait to hold it and read it.
Just pre-ordered and cannot wait to read it!
Christie, this is wonderful! I found your site not long ago and have loved reading through the entries. I know the book will be great – thanks for sharing!
Thrilling!!!!
Just ordered!!!!!!
Everything about your impending arrival is beautiful: title, cover, description. I’d love to have it in my hands now, but I can only imagine how much better it’s going to be to read it during the post-Christmas snows!