(Haven Makers #1)

Robin Jones Gunn

Kindle Edition, 320 pages

Expected publication: May 22nd 2019 by Multnomah

ASIN

B0755ZVBGR

From the author of the best-selling Christy Miller and SisterChicks series comes a new book of community, friendship, and tackling the hard things of life with God and loved ones around a table.

Five young moms, including beloved Gunn character Christy Miller, gather to share meals and soon become unlikely best friends. The regular gatherings provide opportunities for the women to reveal their stories, and those life stories endear them to each other. They experience their lives naturally meshing as they raise their children together in community. In Becoming Us the group find ways to challenge, encourage, and help each other become the nurturing mothers they wished they'd had when they were growing up. They unite to be remembered for what they do as moms and not for what was done to them.

My thoughts: BECOMING US is the first book in Ms. Gunn's Haven Maker series and features her well-known characters Christy and Sierra that many readers grew up with. (I didn't. I never read either of those series.) I discovered Ms. Gunn's books via her Glenbrooke series and her Sisterchick series.

A group of four women: BECOMING US is written in first person, and in Emily's point of view. Emily is shy, misplaced, unconfident, and struggling to find her footing in a new environment. Her husband has a new job and is an extrovert, her daughter is thriving and making friends, and Emily just wants to crawl into a cave and hide.

Womens fiction, this is a story of Emily finds her footing, finds friends, and finds her faith in the midst of a pending life storm.

Fans of Ms. Gunn (especially those who grew up with Christy or Sierra) will want to grab this new book BECOMING US.

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I was given a copy free. All opinions are my own.