AN IMPROBABLE LOVE STORY<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n by <\/span><\/strong>Babette Fraser Hale<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Memoir \/ Relationships \/ Aging \/ Grief<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Publisher: Winedale Publishing<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Date of Publication: April 2, 2024<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Number of Pages: 312 pages\u202f<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Leon Hale, author of Bonney\u2019s Place, was sixty years old, a \u201ccountry boy\u201d who wrote about rural Texans with humor and sensitivity in his popular column for The Houston Post and, later the Houston Chronicle. Babette Fraser at thirty-six was a child of privilege, a city girl educated abroad, struggling in her career while raising a young son. No one thought it could work.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Even Hale himself held serious doubts. But it did endure. The interior congruencies they discovered through a long and turbulent courtship knit them tightly together for the rest of his life.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n And when he died during the Pandemic isolation period, searing levels of grief and doubt threatened Babette\u2019s understanding of the partnership and marriage that had sustained her for forty years. Had he really been the person she thought he was? Had he kept secrets that would forever change her view of him?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In candid, evocative prose, she explores the distorted perceptions that often follow the death of a cherished spouse, and the loving resolution that allows life to go on.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n CLICK TO PURCHASE<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n TAMU Press<\/a> * Amazon<\/a> <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n +Add to Goodreads<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n BLOG<\/a> \u25c6 GOODREADS <\/a>\u25c6 FACEBOOK<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n AMAZON <\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Click the blogs for book reviews and special features!<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 04\/16\/24<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n Jennie Reads<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n Review<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n 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ABOUT THE BOOK: <\/strong>In this intimate rendering of a relationship, we learn how deceptive surface impressions can be.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/field\/image\/this_familiar_heart_2.jpg\")
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:<\/strong> Babette Fraser Hale is the author of A Wall of Bright Dead Feathers, 2022 winner of the debut fiction award from the Texas Institute of Letters. Her stories have received notice from Best American Short Stories, 2015 and the Meyerson Award from Southwest Review. In addition to writing fiction, Babette has been a magazine feature writer, columnist, contributing editor, book editor, and publisher. She lives in Texas.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/article_body_images\/xtra_ad_this_familiar_heart.png\")
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