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We Are Called to Rise

By: Laura McBride
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Kirby Heyborne, Madeleine Maby, Pete Simonelli
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Summary

"We never know how high we are / Till we are called to rise; And then, if we are true to plan, / Our statures touch the skies." (Emily Dickinson)

Beyond Las Vegas' casinos lies a boomtown where four lives can be brought together by one split-second choice.

In the predawn hours, a woman's marriage crumbles with a single confession. Across town, an immigrant family struggles to fit in and get by in the land of opportunity. Three thousand miles away, a soldier wakes up in Walter Reed hospital with the vague feeling that he’s done something awful. In a single moment, these disparate lives intersect. Faced with seemingly insurmountable loss, each person must decide whether to give in to despair, or to find the courage and resilience to rise.

We Are Called to Rise is a story about a child's fate. It is a story about families - the ones we have and the ones we make. It challenges us to think about our responsibilities to one another and reminds us that compassion and charity can rescue us, even in our darkest moment. It is a book that will break your heart and then put it back together.
©2014 Laura McBride (P)2014 Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Fiction Literary Fiction Women's Fiction Heartfelt
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Hearwrenching

This story wrung me out and washed me clean- I don’t know if I would have been brave enough to choose it if I had known what I was letting myself in for. It was billed as ‘uplifting’ but it dig deep in the darkness to achieve it.

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