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Dysfunction Junction

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When three women receive an unexpected phone call that leaves them reeling, they have no other choice but to reckon with a lifetime of memories they’ve long tried to bury. Only in facing the past will they find their path forward.
Frances Mae Livingston’s firm grip of her family’s destructive history makes her hold her husband and four children even closer. But she’s losing bits of herself while proving to everybody and her mama that she’s enough. There’s no way she’ll repeat her mama’s mistakes, even if it kills her.
Annabelle McMillan didn’t have trouble kicking the Eastern North Carolina dust off her feet. The tough part was replanting herself in familiar soil. Now she’s blending her old life with her new husband, stepson, and unborn child. And battling old memories of abandonment and new fears of rejection.
Dr. Charlotte Winters has built a career around helping others sort through their emotional baggage. She’s also spent a lifetime refusing to unpack her own. So what if Charlotte doesn’t recall all that her mama did to her and what her daddy didn't do for her? Her only mission is to help others help themselves…until the women from her past and the man in her future undo her well-sewn life.
At the junction of healed and hurting, broken and whole, and past and present, three women wrestle with their inability to forgive and forget in this riveting Southern family drama about sisterhood from award-winning author Robin W. Pearson.
  • Southern family saga
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  • For fans of Black authors like Patricia Raybon, Toni Shiloh, and Brit Bennett
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      • Publisher's Weekly

        October 23, 2023
        In this textured family drama from Pearson (Walking in Tall Weeds), three adult sisters are drawn back into one another’s orbit after their mother’s death. Frankie, Annabelle, and Charlotte could hardly be more different: pragmatic Frankie has four kids and often served as a stand-in mom for her siblings, but is slowly cracking under the weight of familial obligations; gentle and reticent Annabelle struggles with self-esteem issues; and “workaholic” psychologist Charlotte is single, successful, and expert at keeping others at a distance. When their domineering mother Mayhelen dies, the three reunite to make funeral arrangements and determine the fate of their childhood home. In doing so, they come face-to-face with memories of the woman whose “hold on them was as firm as it was painful.” Charlotte, who’d been their mother’s favorite, must reconcile her memories with the painful stories her sisters have shared, while Annabelle, who’s pregnant with her first child, begins to view Mayhelen in a more sympathetic light. As the sisters ricochet between grief and bitterness, they grapple with the meaning of forgiveness and the limits of family duty in a narrative that’s empathic, energetic, and nuanced. The result is a heartfelt tribute to the bonds of sisterhood.

      • Booklist

        December 22, 2023
        A trio of sisters is at the junction of hurt and healing in the latest novel from inspirational author Pearson (after Walking in Tall Weeds, 2022). The Winters sisters--Frankie, Annabelle, and Charlotte--hold a lot of resentment when it comes to their late mother, Mayhellen Winters. Frankie, the oldest, resents being tasked with raising her sisters because her mother wouldn't. Annabelle's resentment comes from her mother choosing men and her general store over raising her children. And the youngest sister, Charlotte, resents being left behind with Mayhellen when her sisters left home. All of this trauma has caused cracks in their relationship with one another and their relationship with the Lord. Now adults, the sisters must rely on their religious faith if they are to have any faith in one other. Dysfunction Junction is a sermon on childhood trauma and its lasting effects as well as the healing power of one's Christian faith to overcome said trauma. While the book is a tad verbose and repetitive, many readers will relate to the sisters and their situation.

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