I would like to share a new novel called Analyzing the Prescotts: A Novel by Dawn Reno Langley. I received a copy of this novel in exchange for this review. Inside this post are my affiliate links. If you click on the links and make a purchase I will make a small percentage from the items you purchase.
As a parenting blog there is somethings that are hard for me to share on my site but as a parent I always want to make sure my child is informed about things in the world including LGBTQ which I don’t remember hearing about until a few years ago. When I heard about Analyzing the Prescotts and it being in the following category LGBTQ, Parenting and Families, and Contemporary Fiction I knew I would upset a couple friends but I needed to be true to my family.
I sat down and read the book without saying anything to David or Charlie halfway through the novel I knew this would be a book I needed to share with Charlie who has just begun dating and I also wanted to get David’s opinions on the story. At night I would read a chapter or two of the book and we would discuss what the Author had written and through the book I’ve begun to understand more about LGBTQ and how it fits into the world.
Charlie’s has a couple friends who are dating girls that don’t want to be identified as a girl and a guy who wants to get his body altered which my family doesn’t agree with but I know having a copy of Analyzing the Prescotts: A Novel will help them and there families face the things they want to change and how they want to live there lives.
There is violence in the book and family dysfunction so this novel isn’t for younger children and you may want to find someone to talk to after reading the story of a dad becoming a women or at least my family did. I hope you keep a open mind and read the book and no, as a Christian this isn’t something we believe in but its the world we live in and have to come to terms which is hard because of what we learn from the Bible.
About the book:
The heart-wrenching tale of a family in crisis and the therapist who makes the tough decision to save herself.
Every member of the Prescott family struggles with identity issues when the father, Hailey Prescott, leaves the family to live life as a woman, sending them all tumbling into emotions so violent they threaten to tear the family fabric to shreds. When Dr. Cotton Barnes, a happily married psychologist from Raleigh, North Carolina, signs on to treat the family, she is challenged to the edges of her own fragile boundaries as cracks in the veneer of the Prescotts’ lives become craters.
The family members relate their stories in their chosen voices, each narrative in a different format. Marcus, the youngest, speaks to Cotton through his avatars; Gray, the mother, distances herself by referring to herself in the third person; the oldest child, Janis-a self-avowed loner-uses a defunct social media app; while the middle child, Cheryl, tries to keep everyone personally happy in person; and Hailey, the novelist father, hides behind her journals.
The Prescotts take turns breaking down and breaking through a roller coaster of emotions that mirrors what’s happening in the Raleigh area: a series of LGBTQ+ hate crimes rocks the community to its core. Telling herself she must save them, Cotton stalks the family, but when Hailey Prescott becomes the latest victim of brutality, Cotton is forced to make a decision that will determine whether she saves her own marriage or the Prescotts. Or herself.
Analyzing the Prescotts is the latest from Dawn Reno Langley, a novelist who Foreword Reviews says writes with “authority and fine craftsmanship.”
Meet the Author: Dawn Reno Langley
At the tender age of nine Dawn Reno Langley wrote her first published piece: an essay on the Cuban Missile Crisis. Since then her pen/computer has spewed forth a great number of written works ranging from newspaper articles to novels, poetry to children’s books, memoirs to fantasies. Her pseudonyms include: Dawn Reno, Dawn E. Reno, Dawn Elaine Reno, Dawn Reno Langley, and Diana Lord.
An avid traveler, she attempts to visit a new country/international city at least once a year. Though she loves the old standbys (Paris, Venice, London), she’s also fond of Kenya, Thailand, Islamabad and St. Kitts. She loves exploring new places with her scientist-musician husband, Ian. Next on their list: anywhere in South America.
As a teacher, Dawn has touched the lives of students from a 6th grade Montessori class to students in honors-level university courses, and writers in MFA and PhD programs. She counts many of them among her friends.
Gardening fills up other hours, and whether it’s a new piece of land that needs to be tilled or a hanging basket that simply needs watering, if it’s green, she wants to nourish it. (However, she’s having issues with roses lately . . . anyone with a new way of handling black spot?)
She blogs about books on Goodreads; talks about writing and the world around her on LinkedIn; and speaks to groups about writing, the social justice issues she stands for, and life as a Buddhist-yogi-writer. Her business, Rewired Creatives, Inc., offers editing, ghostwriting, coaching, and writing retreats.
Next on her plate: writing a new novel.
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Publisher: Black Rose Publishing
Print length: 308 pages
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Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
