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First Line Friday – Missing Isaac

January 5, 2018 by Suzie Waltner 22 Comments

First Line Friday

It’s the first Friday of 2018 and there were so many new releases this week, it was hard to pick which one I wanted to share with you today. I decided to go with a debut author: Valerie Fraser Luesse. This is on my read list for this weekend! Can’t wait to dive in.

What are you reading this week? Leave the first line in the comments then hop on over to the Hoarding Books Blog to check out more first lines.

First Line Friday

First line: 

October 10, 1962

A sleepy purple twilight wrapped around the farmhouse, it’s tall windows glowing with warmth from somewhere inside.

 

Doesn’t that paint the coziest picture? 

 

More About the Book

There was another South in the 1960s, one far removed from the marches and bombings and turmoil in the streets that were broadcast on the evening news. It was a place of inner turmoil, where ordinary people struggled to right themselves on a social landscape that was dramatically shifting beneath their feet. This is the world of Valerie Fraser Luesse’s stunning debut, Missing Isaac.

It is 1965 when black field hand Isaac Reynolds goes missing from the tiny, unassuming town of Glory, Alabama. The townspeople’s reactions range from concern to indifference, but one boy will stop at nothing to find out what happened to his unlikely friend. White, wealthy, and fatherless, young Pete McLean has nothing to gain and everything to lose in his relentless search for Isaac. In the process, he will discover much more than he bargained for. Before it’s all over, Pete–and the people he loves most–will have to blur the hard lines of race, class, and religion. And what they discover about themselves may change some of them forever.

 

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Filed Under: First Line Friday Tagged With: debut, First Line Friday, Missing Isaac, revell, Valerie Fraser Luesse

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Comments

  1. Iola says

    January 5, 2018 at 3:48 AM

    I’m reading this as well. It’s excellent – she really knows how to write to create an atmosphere.

    I’m sharing the first line from The View from Rainshadow Bay by Colleen Coble on my blog – a must-read for romantic suspense fans.

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    • Suzie Waltner says

      January 5, 2018 at 6:11 AM

      I just started Missing Isaac last night (after finishing The View from Rain Shadow Bay) 🙂

      Reply
  2. Phyllis - Among the Reads says

    January 5, 2018 at 7:04 AM

    It sounds like an intriguing book. . .

    My first line is from the Christian Young Adult book Bubbly Schnitzel by Meg Gonzales.

    “Julia, this is a horrible idea.”

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  3. Becky says

    January 5, 2018 at 7:39 AM

    I saw this as a Goodreads giveaway the other day! I wondered if it was good. I’m going to have to add this to my TBR.

    I’m sharing about Until We Find Home by Cathy Gohlke on the blog today, but since it’s the closest book to me since it’s what I’m currently reading, I’ll share it here as well.

    May 1940

    Lightning crackled, splitting the night sky over Paris, illuminating letters painted on the bookstore window across the street: La Maison de Amis Livres. Driving rain pounded the loose shutters of Shakespeare and Company, making them rattle so that Claire Stewart dropped the heavy blackout curtain into place.

    Happy Friday!

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    • Suzie Waltner says

      January 5, 2018 at 8:18 AM

      Oh, that one is on my January to-read list too! It looks so good.

      Reply
  4. Trisha says

    January 5, 2018 at 7:41 AM

    This sounds like a really good book! I’ll have to look for it. Over on my blog this week, I’m featuring The Lacemaker by Laura Frantz (another amazing book!). My next book on the TBR stack just happens to be the feature book on Hoarding Books, so I won’t share an extra line in the comments this week. Have a wonderful weekend & keep warm!

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    • Suzie Waltner says

      January 5, 2018 at 8:18 AM

      Both great historical reads!

      Reply
  5. Caryl Kane says

    January 5, 2018 at 7:55 AM

    Adam Bryan pushed into the Magnolia Cafe and turned to wait for his younger sister Daisy. – Second Change Rose by Liz Talley (Christmas Roses by multiple authors)

    Happy Friday!

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  6. Katherine Good says

    January 5, 2018 at 9:46 AM

    My first line is from Karen Witemeyer’s The Love Knot. “Claire Nevin frowned at the cheerful white clouds frolicking across the blue sky and tried to close her ears against the chipper melodies the birds insisted on singing in response to the deceptively fine morning. Ignorant creatures. Could they not sense that this day held no cause for celebration?”

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    • Suzie Waltner says

      January 5, 2018 at 12:51 PM

      Oh, is this one from the Hearts Entangled collection? Can’t wait to read that one!

      Reply
  7. Becky Smith says

    January 5, 2018 at 10:05 AM

    Happy Friday!

    My first line(s) is from the Prologue in Susan May Warren’s new book Troubled Waters, which I finished last night:

    “Oh, this was a bad idea. Epically, abysmally, horrendously bad.”

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    • Suzie Waltner says

      January 5, 2018 at 12:50 PM

      Another great read from Susan May Warren

      Reply
  8. Nicole Santana says

    January 5, 2018 at 12:02 PM

    Happy Friday!!! Great first line.

    Today, I’m hosting Oath of Honor on my site. I just started it, so I’m only at chapter 3. So, here I will share the first couple of lines from that chapter.

    “‘Kevin!’ But with the doors shut and the windows up, he wouldn’t hear her whispered shout. She should have lied and said the place was covered in cameras.”

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    • Suzie Waltner says

      January 5, 2018 at 12:50 PM

      Loved that one!

      Reply
  9. Ellie says

    January 5, 2018 at 1:20 PM

    I just started reading Three Little Words by Melissa Tagg and the first line is “Seven years shouldn’t feel like such a gaping span of time.” I hope you have a nice weekend!

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    • Suzie Waltner says

      January 5, 2018 at 1:21 PM

      I need to catch up on Melissa Tagg’s newest! Loved that novella, though!

      Happy Friday!

      Reply
  10. Heather says

    January 5, 2018 at 1:44 PM

    Happy Friday!

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  11. bettylouise31 says

    January 5, 2018 at 2:12 PM

    The cover entices since you into the story. When I see books using the 1950’s and 60’s I am amused as that time was my working time. I was in my twenties

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  12. Beckie B. says

    January 5, 2018 at 3:45 PM

    I’ll be reading Missing Isaac next. It is also my book club’s February pick. I’m featuring Oath of Honor over on my blog, but I’ll share Life on The Porcelain Edge by C.E. Hilbert here — Tessa Tarrington’s life was in the toilet.

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  13. Sarah says

    January 5, 2018 at 10:42 PM

    Cozy indeed! Have a wonderful weekend!

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  14. Beth Erin says

    January 6, 2018 at 9:50 AM

    I’m reading Missing Isaac soon, probably next week!

    Death had a way of creeping up on a soul, and Ivy Thorpe was determined that when it visited her, she would not be surprised.
    The House on Foster Hill by Jaime Jo Wright

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  15. Jessica Baker says

    January 7, 2018 at 8:15 PM

    I can’t wait to start reading this book.. and now I don’t have to read the first line

    Reply

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