A Hunger In The Heart - Paperback

by Kaye Park Hinckley (Author)

HUNGER IN THE HEART is set in 1955 as a young boy comes to terms with the consequences World War II has had on his family.His beloved, shell-shocked, father is a decorated hero who stages continual games of war to train his son; his bigoted, alcoholic mother blames the misfortune in her marriage on the soldier whose life her husband saved; and his manipulative grandfather stirs up trouble between mother and son, until the boy must fight a personal war just to survive. When the boy's father is suspiciously shot and killed, his grandfather accuses his daughter-in-law, and a bitter estrangement between the boy and his mother is set in motion, tempered only by the family gardener and a neighbor girl with family problems of her own.This is a story, ultimately, of hope and love. How we find it and thrive in even the darkest circumstances.

Author Biography

Kaye Park Hinckley earned a bachelor's degree in fine arts from Spring Hill College, in Mobile, Alabama. A former advertising agency owner, her fiction has appeared in several literary journals, including Dappled Things. She blogs at www.aworldontheedge.com. She is the mother of five children and ten grandchildren. Other books include: Birds of a Feather Mary's Mountain The Wind That Shakes the Corn: Memoirs of a Scots Irish Woman She Who Sees Beyond Upcoming Books: Bridgeman Burning: The Sins of a Southern Man, the sequel to A Hunger in the Heart