{"id":1264,"date":"2011-05-05T01:01:20","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T01:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2011-05-01T21:41:51","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T21:41:51","slug":"author-angela-hunt-the-fine-art-of-insincerity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/uncategorized\/author-angela-hunt-the-fine-art-of-insincerity","title":{"rendered":"Author Angela Hunt & The Fine Art of Insincerity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My guest today Author Angela Hunt writes thought-provoking and stories of the unusual. Her photo above is of her floating down the Amazon River while researching her book, The Canopy<\/strong>. Her last series centered on a heroine who ran a funeral parlor. That’s The Fairlawn series So I look for the unusual and insightful when I read an Angela Hunt novel. Here’s the scoop on her latest.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Fine Art of Insincerity<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Three Southern sisters with nine marriages between them \u2014\u00a0and more looming on the horizon \u2013\u00a0travel to St. Simons Island to empty their late grandmother\u2019s house. Ginger, the eldest, wonders if she\u2019s the only one who hasn\u2019t inherited what their family calls \u201cthe Grandma Gene\u201d\u2014 the tendency to enjoy the casualness of courtship more than the intimacy of marriage. Could it be that her sisters are fated to serially marry, just like their seven-times wed grandmother, Lillian Irene Harper Winslow Goldstein Carey James Bobrinski Gordon George? It takes a \u201cgirls only\u201d weekend, closing up Grandma\u2019s memory-filled beach cottage for the last time, for the sisters to unpack their family baggage, examine their relationship DNA, and discover the true legacy their much-marrying grandmother left behind.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The Fine Art of Insincerity <\/em>is a stunning masterpiece. I was pulled into the lives of Ginger, Pennyroyal and Rosemary–sisters touched by tragedy, coping in their own ways. So real, so powerful. Pull out the tissues! This one will make you cry, laugh, and smile. I recommend it highly.\u00a0 –Traci DePree, author of The Lake Emily series<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOnly Angela Hunt could write a relationship novel that\u2019s a page-turner! As one of three sisters, I can promise you this: Ginger, Penny, and Rose Lawrence ring very true indeed. Their flaws and strengths make them different, yet their shared experiences and tender feelings make them family. From one crisis to the next, the Lawrence sisters are pulled apart, then knit back together, taking me right along with them. I worried about Ginger one moment, then Penny, and always Rose\u2014a sure sign of a good novel, engaging both mind and heart.\u00a0Come spend\u00a0the weekend in coastal Georgia with three women who clean house in more ways than one!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Liz Curtis Higgs, best-selling author of Here Burns My Candle<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

THE FINE ART OF INSINCERITY<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

ANGELA HUNT<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Prologue <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Ginger<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t tell your sisters,\u201d my grandmother once told me, \u201cwhat I\u2019m about to tell you.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

I listened, eyes big, heart open wide. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOf all my grandchildren\u2014\u201d her hands spread as if to encompass a crowd infinitely larger than myself and my two siblings\u2014\u201cyou\u2019re my favorite.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Then her arms enfolded me and I breathed in the scents of Shalimar and talcum powder as my face pressed the crepey softness of her cheek. <\/span><\/p>\n

My grandmother married seven times, but not until I hit age ten or eleven did I realize that her accomplishment wasn\u2019t necessarily praiseworthy. When Grandmother\u2019s last husband died on her eighty-third birthday, she mentioned the possibility of marrying again, but I put my foot down and told her no more weddings<\/em>. I suspect my edict suited her fine, because Grandmom always liked flirting better than marrying. <\/span><\/p>\n

Later, one of the nurses at the home mentioned that my grandmother exhibited a charming personality quirk\u2014\u201cPerpetual Childhood Disorder,\u201d\u00a0 she called it. PCD, all too common among elderly patients with dementia. <\/span><\/p>\n

But Grandmother didn\u2019t have dementia, and she had exhibited symptoms of PCD all her life. Though I didn\u2019t know how to describe it in my younger years, I used to consider it a really fine quality.<\/span><\/p>\n

During the summers when Daddy shipped me and my sisters off to Grandmom\u2019s house, she used to wait until Rose and Penny were absorbed in their games, then she would call me into the blue bedroom upstairs. Sometimes she\u2019d let me sort through the glass beaded \u201cearbobs\u201d in her jewelry box. Sometimes she\u2019d sing to me. Sometimes she\u2019d pull her lace-trimmed hanky from her pocketbook, fold it in half twice, and tell me the story of the well-dressed woman who sat on a bench and fell over backward. Then she\u2019d flip her folded hankie and gleefully lift the woman\u2019s skirt and petticoat, exposing two beribboned legs.<\/span><\/p>\n

No matter how large her audience, the woman knew how to entertain. <\/span><\/p>\n

I perched on the edge of the big iron bed and listened to her songs and stories, her earbobs clipped to the tender lobes of my ears, enduring the painful pinch because Grandmother said a woman had to suffer before she could be beautiful. Before I pulled off the torturous earbobs and left the room, she would draw me close and swear that out of all the girls in the world, I was the one she loved most. <\/span><\/p>\n

Not until years later did I learn that she drew my sisters aside in the same way. I suppose she wanted to make sure we motherless girls knew we were treasured. But in those moments, I always felt truly special. <\/span><\/p>\n

And for far too long, I believed her. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a9 2012 by Angela Hunt, used by permission. Do not reprint without permission. For more information, visit <\/span>www.angelahuntbooks.com<\/span><\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n

To order: <\/span>www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/<\/span><\/span>1439182035\/booksbyangelae0d<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

To view a trailer, narrated by the author, click this link http:\/\/youtu.be\/nsNku7BuAGM<\/a><\/p>\n

So are you intrigued? Do you and your sisters or good friends ever go away for a girl’s weekend? <\/span><\/p>\n

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