Receiving a new reader review on
Amazon is always special, and it was gratifying to find two from the
same reader who commented she had read the entire “Carousel” Trilogy!
Here’s more information about what
that reader so enjoyed that she gave two of the books 5-Star Reviews.
The Carousel Trilogy
How I Grew Up
Eli’s Heart
You Are My Song
by
Susan Moore Jordan
Melanie Stewart, Krissy Porter, Jamie Logan
Three high school friends
connected
by one life-changing event. Each with a story
to tell.
How I
Grew Up is Melanie’s story. On a February night in 1954, her estranged
brother-in-law entered her home with a gun and started shooting. When he left,
her mother lay dead, her father was mortally wounded, and another
brother-in-law was critically injured. Less than two weeks later, Melanie auditions
for her high school’s musical production of Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s Carousel. How she wins the leading role
of Julie Jordan and performs it brilliantly while her involvement in the show
helps her begin to heal is a testament to the power of creativity in our lives.
Eli’s
Heart is Krissy’s story. Just a few months prior to that Carousel production, for which she
played harp in the orchestra, Krissy had met Eli Levin, a boy her own age born
with two burdens: a prodigious musical gift and a frightening congenital heart
condition. What seemed to be a budding romance between the brilliant young
pianist and the girl he fell in love with during that summer was ended by the
interference of his family. But Krissy and Eli manage to find their way back to
each other some three years later. They marry while still college students when
they are both twenty. Their story is one of learning to live a full life
despite the odds against them.
You
Are My Song is the story of Melanie’s leading man in Carousel. Jamie Logan had a voice of
unusual beauty and seemed destined to become a singer, but his high school
sweetheart didn’t want him to sing. Their marriage ended after two years,
shattering Jamie’s self-confidence. Jamie comes to realize music is vital to
his life and he returns to college to study opera. With the encouragement of
his teachers and his new love, Jamie finds the inner strength to pursue a most
difficult path, facing both professional and personal challenges along the way.
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