Finding Our Way Home: A Novel - eBook

Charlene Ann Baumbich is the author of the Dearest Dorothy series, Stray Affections, and Divine Appointments, as well as several nonfiction books of humor and inspiration. She is also a popular speaker, an award-winning journalist, and lives with her husband in Glen Ellyn, Illinois.

"Fans of Jan Karon will adore Charlene Baumbich's warmth, wisdom, and inspiration." — SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS, New York Times best-selling author of Call Me Irresistible

"An endearing read of gifts…unlikely friendships, perseverance of will, enduring love, and without pause, the ever present gift of grace…all discovered amidst life's most untimely hardships." — TRESA MOTT, The Next Chapter Book & Gift Boutique and Tresa Mott's School of Dance

"Descriptive passages of this story immerse one in a tender tale of hope and love. This touching story is a reminder to all of us that even the dark moments of our lives can be transformed through our own power and through true friendship." — KENNETH VON HEIDECKE, world-renowned choreographer

"The book is an enthralling read that made me both laugh and cry. I literally couldn’t put it down. I suspect you will feel the same way." — Midwest Book Review Bookwatch, reviewer Alma Bond

"A heartwarming story of how life's dance should always be done with partners—even when those partners are surprising ones. Charlene’s true-to-life characters find their way into your heart and stay there for a long time after the final chapter is done. You know them, love them, root for their happiness, and smile for hours when it comes. Charming, surprising, familiar, and just downright wonderful." — ALLIE PLEITER, author of Yukon Wedding and Bluegrass Blessings

"Charlene Baumbich does it again. She's written an unusual, charming, and touching story. Two unusual heroines—an awkward teenager and a wounded ballerina - find the true meaning of loving and being loved. I devoured this book. Loved every unique word!" - LYN COTE, author of La Belle Christiane

For her third novel in the Snowglobe Connections series, Baumbich (the Dearest Dorothy series) returns to smalltown Wanonishaw, Minn., where Sasha Davis retreats to her childhood home to recover when an injury ends her career as a prima ballerina. Shutting out her husband and dance partner, Donald, Sasha copes with pain and depression. Comfort comes from memories, a mystifying snow globe that her mother gave her at the beginning of her dance career, and from an unlikely source: her 19-year-old easy-going, upbeat personal assistant, Evelyn, who is working through some problems of her own. Small acts of kindness lead to unexpected, strong bonds of friendship between the two women in this gentle tale of grace, second chances, leaps of faith, and finding a way through difficult circumstances. Baumbich’s technique of telling the story from inside the head of each character creates sympathy for them despite their flaws, but proves tedious in propelling the plot because the reader is too long in the dark about why Sasha won’t see her husband, why he stays away for many months, and why Evelyn abandons dreams of college to become engaged against her parents’ wishes. Agent: Danielle Egan-Miller. (Mar.)2012 Reed Business Information.

Praise for Finding Our Way Home

"Fans of Jan Karon will adore Charlene Baumbich’s warmth, wisdom, and inspiration."
—Susan Elizabeth Phillips, New York Times best-selling author of Call Me Irresistible

"An endearing read of gifts…unlikely friendships, perseverance of will, enduring love, and without pause, the ever present gift of grace…all discovered amidst life’s most untimely hardships."
—Tresa Mott, The Next Chapter Book & Gift Boutique and Tresa Mott’s School of Dance

"Descriptive passages of this story immerse one in a tender tale of hope and love. This touching story is a reminder to all of us that even the dark moments of our lives can be transformed through our own power and through true friendship."
—Kenneth von Heidecke, world-renowned choreographer

"The book is an enthralling read that made me both laugh and cry. I literally couldn’t put it down. I suspect you will feel the same way."
—Midwest Book Review Bookwatch, reviewer Alma Bond

"A heartwarming story of how life’s dance should always be done with partners—even when those partners are surprising ones. Charlene’s true-to-life characters find their way into your heart and stay there for a long time after the final chapter is done. You know them, love them, root for their happiness, and smile for hours when it comes. Charming, surprising, familiar, and just downright wonderful."
—Allie Pleiter, author of Yukon Wedding and Bluegrass Blessings

"Charlene Baumbich does it again. She’s written an unusual, charming, and touching story. Two unusual heroines—an awkward teenager and a wounded ballerina—find the true meaning of loving and being loved. I devoured this book. Loved every unique word!"
—Lyn Cote, author of La Belle Christiane