The Stories We Carry
Ebook
Overview
A small-town bookstore owner finds herself at odds with a newcomer bent on disrupting her quiet life in this Southern women’s fiction novel by award-winning author Robin W. Pearson.
Glory Pryor has carved out a life for herself in Gilmore, North Carolina, cultivating a community around her bookstore, By the Book. While her business is a success, she carries the weight of stories of her own she’s never told anyone. She holds out hope that one day her estranged brother will turn up on her doorstep so she can finally learn where he’s been all these years. Glory’s husband Eli thinks she has her arms wrapped too tightly around the could-have-beens, and that it’s time for them to let go of the store as they head into their retirement years. Glory has different opinions on that—she’s not ready to give up the dream she’s built just yet. Then Adelle Simonette shows up with her young son, Bennett, and Glory’s carefully controlled life begins to crumble.
Newly widowed Adelle Simonette is a single mother trying to find her footing and navigate parenting her young son. Lost in her grief, one thing she’s certain of is that she needs to confront Glory Pryor and everybody who knows her because the woman’s been living a lie. Adelle thinks it’s high time Glory made things right. But Adelle’s finding it hard to tell the truth . . . and there will be no going back once she does.
In the wake of deeply personal grief and loss, two women reckon with a lifetime of silence and secrets to find a path forward toward healing, hope, and restoration.
- Contemporary women’s fiction for fans of Denise Hunter, Vanessa Miller, Rachel Hauck, and Rhonda McKnight
- A small-town Southern saga that features bookish heroines and themes of family, forgiveness, and reconciliation
- Includes discussion questions for book clubs
In The Stories We Carry, Pearson gives us an unflinching look at a marriage and all its highs, lows, and loving compromises. It’s also an ode to bookstores, the stories contained within them, and deep-seated dreams—both those we chase and those we release. . . . [An] engrossing read!
The Stories We Carry is a deeply moving novel about the burden of secrets, the ache of loss, and healing through a journey to God’s truth. With rich storytelling and unforgettable characters. . . . Readers won’t soon forget the messages found between the pages.
A poignant picture of grief and regret as the characters grapple with learning when to let go and when to hang on tight. It’s the type of book you close with a happy sigh and tears brimming in your eyes.
Crafted with exquisite details that make you long for more time in the lush Carolina mountains with the flawed, relatable characters and the charming bookstore they inhabit, The Stories We Carry is premier upmarket fiction at its best.
In the small fictional town of Gilmore, North Carolina, novelist Robin W. Pearson brings to life an intriguing coterie of old friends, customers, and mysterious strangers, all drawn to protagonist Glory Pryor and the welcoming bookstore she lives above.
Pearson paints a vivid and moving picture of the stories that shape us and what is required and gained in surrendering to love greater than our own. An emotional, thought-provoking story that speaks to the heart of every generation.
[A] captivating contemporary. . . . Pearson’s flawed, immensely likable characters drive a layered narrative that reveals its secrets slowly as it explores themes of redemption, grief, and faith lost and found. This family drama satisfies.
Pearson (Dysfunction Junction, 2024) challenges and inspires in her latest novel about truth, fiction, and faith within the narratives that shape our lives. . . . Pearson’s prose is poetic and compassionately unflinching.
- Title: The Stories We Carry
- Author: Robin W. Pearson
- Publisher: Tyndale Fiction
- Print Publication Date: 2025
- Logos Release Date: 2025
- Pages: 352
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9798400501272, 9798400501258
- Resource ID: LLS:9798400501272
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-08-26T07:33:05Z