{"id":141,"date":"2008-04-09T08:38:13","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T14:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/\/?p=141"},"modified":"2008-04-09T08:38:13","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T14:38:13","slug":"trouble-the-water-by-nicole-seitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/?p=141","title":{"rendered":"Trouble the Water by Nicole Seitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><span style=\"font-size: 130%\">This week, the<\/span><br \/>\n<\/center><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfictionblogalliance.com\/\">Christian Fiction Blog Alliance<\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><center>is introducing<\/center><br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1595544003\">Trouble the Water<\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><center>Thomas Nelson (March 11, 2008)<\/center><center>by<\/center><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicoleseitz.com\/\">Nicole Seitz<\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\n<font color=\"#003366\"><strong>ABOUT THE AUTHOR:<\/strong><\/font><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_cESuxv-WNX8\/R_mjKRcfukI\/AAAAAAAAApI\/T4NJrQsql9w\/s1600-h\/nicole+seitz.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_cESuxv-WNX8\/R_mjKRcfukI\/AAAAAAAAApI\/T4NJrQsql9w\/s320\/nicole+seitz.jpg\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186355842770778690\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Nicole Seitz is a South Carolina Lowcountry native and the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1591455065\">The Spirit of Sweetgrass <\/a>as well as a freelance writer\/illustrator who has published in numerous low country magazines. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill&#8217;s School of Journalism, she also has a bachelor&#8217;s degree in illustration from Savannah College of Art &amp; Design. Nicole shows her paintings in the Charleston, South Carolina area, where she owns a web design firm and lives with her husband and two small children. Nicole is also an avid blogger, you can leave her a comment on her <a href=\"http:\/\/nicoleseitz.blogspot.com\/\">blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Seitz&#8217;s writing style recalls that of Southern authors like Kaye Gibbons, Anne Rivers Siddons, and Sue Monk Kidd, and this new novel, which the publisher compares to Kidd&#8217;s The Secret Life of Bees, surely joins the ranks of strong fiction that highlights the complicated relationships between women. Highly recommended, especially for Southern libraries.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#003366\"><strong>ABOUT THE BOOK:<\/strong><\/font><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_cESuxv-WNX8\/R_mjPBcfulI\/AAAAAAAAApQ\/Cjl2UvNFWN0\/s1600-h\/TroubletheWaterCover\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_cESuxv-WNX8\/R_mjPBcfulI\/AAAAAAAAApQ\/Cjl2UvNFWN0\/s320\/TroubletheWaterCover\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186355924375157330\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>In the South Carolina Sea Islands lush setting, Nicole Seitz&#8217;s second novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1595544003\">Trouble the Water<\/a> is a poignant novel about two middle-aged sisters&#8217; journey to self-discovery.<\/p>\n<p>One is seeking to recreate her life yet again and learns to truly live from a group of Gullah nannies she meets on the island. The other thinks she&#8217;s got it all together until her sister&#8217;s imminent death from cancer causes her to re-examine her own life and seek the healing and rebirth her troubled sister managed to find on St. Anne&#8217;s Island.<\/p>\n<p>Strong female protagonists are forced to deal with suicide, wife abuse, cancer, and grief in a realistic way that will ring true for anyone who has ever suffered great loss.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #330099\"><em>&#8220;This is another thing I know for a fact: a woman can&#8217;t be an island, not really. No, it&#8217;s the touching we do in other people&#8217;s lives that matters when all is said and done. The silly things we do for ourselves&#8211;shiny new cars and jobs and money&#8211;they don&#8217;t mean a hill of beans. Honor taught me that. My soul sisters on this island taught me that. And this is the story of true sisterhood. It&#8217;s the story of Honor, come and gone, and how one flawed woman worked miracles in this mixed-up world.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230;a special sisterhood of island women whose wisdom and courage linger in the mind long after the book is closed.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211;<strong><em>NEW YORK TIMES<\/em><\/strong> best-selling author <strong>SUSAN WIGGS<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing Trouble the Water Thomas Nelson (March 11, 2008)byNicole Seitz ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Nicole Seitz is a South Carolina Lowcountry native and the author of The Spirit of Sweetgrass as well as a freelance writer\/illustrator who has published in numerous low country magazines. 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