Change Baby | June Spence | Beautifully written and moving

Change Baby | June Spence | Going/Finding Home

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Change Baby

	Change Baby June Spence Amazon Remainders Account, 2005 - 240 pages average customer review:based on 2 reviews view larger image
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Avie Goss is a 'change baby', born to her mother late in life, almost a generation after her two siblings. When her mother nearly dies in a house fire, Avie returns to the home she abandoned after college to look after her. But her motives are not completely altruistic; Avie also needs a break from her complicated and disastrous love-life. At the age of twenty-four, she finds it difficult at first to adjust from being the spoiled baby of the family to principal caretaker, but soon rises to the challenge. Avie decides to stay longer than planned and surprises herself by finding her rural home town is not without its charms; none more so than the enigmatic newcomer, Saul. Through a tangled web of relationships - with her family, her mother's oldest friend, and Avie's married ex-lover - she comes upon a new understanding of herself and her place within her ancestral legacy. As she better learns who she is as a daughter, friend, and lover, she must decide what kind of person she wants to be, and how she will embark on her future.

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Beautifully written and moving

A wonderful book. Beautifully written, moving and emotionally rewarding, Change Baby follows the lives of a southern family from generation to generation. Stunning for a first novel and a great one for a book club - but perhaps even more enjoyable when savoured alone. If you want rich characters, great prose and emotional depth, this is the book for you.

Going/Finding Home

Change Baby is alot about finding yourself and where you fit in your family, especially when the family leads you to believe one thing about yourself and you find that life isn't really all that you thought it was. Avie Goss returns to home to take care of mother, mostly because her older sister says it is her responsibility because she just can't do it. No matter, Avie is just looking for a reason to get away from her current situation and taking care of mother seems as good of reason as any to return home. Avie immerses herself in the care of her mother and in the process finds that her family is not all that she was lead to believe and as the mysteries of her family unfolds so does Avie as she finally finds her place.

It has been a while since I have read a book that I was so engrossed in from cover to cover that I actually resented having to put it down for real life stuff.

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