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A review by amymo73
Selling the Lite of Heaven by Suzanne Strempek Shea
3.0
Mom gave me this book, which I think I originally gave to her. Or she found on my bookshelf, long forgotten after I bought it and originally read it. Or read part of it. Some of it was familiar. The end not as much. Which isn't surprising as my youth and young adulthood is littered with books mostly, but not fully, completed. (And as I read that sentence, I realize that can apply to books I've read or books I've written.)
Anyway, back to Selling The Lite of Heaven.
Our protagonist is selling her beautiful engagement ring through a classified ad and having prospective buyers come see it at her parents house, in which she still lives. Her finance broke off their engagement a few weeks before the wedding in order to become a priest. How's that for a kick in the spiritual gut.
The story does plod along a bit as the narrative moves from present to the past, weaving in her tale of meeting Eddie, falling in love with Eddie, getting engaged to Eddie, into her current situation of having to sell the engagement ring. The people who come to see it are interesting, much more so than the protagonist who seems to be caught in a life that's not her own. She wants to please her Polish immigrant parents, mostly her mother. And there is no pleasing her mother.
There are strong Roman Catholic themes and Polish-American themes which in some ways remind me of my maternal grandparents and their family tree, but not in a tangible, ah yes, they acted like that way. More in an "I understand the idea here" kind of way.
Anyway, back to Selling The Lite of Heaven.
Our protagonist is selling her beautiful engagement ring through a classified ad and having prospective buyers come see it at her parents house, in which she still lives. Her finance broke off their engagement a few weeks before the wedding in order to become a priest. How's that for a kick in the spiritual gut.
The story does plod along a bit as the narrative moves from present to the past, weaving in her tale of meeting Eddie, falling in love with Eddie, getting engaged to Eddie, into her current situation of having to sell the engagement ring. The people who come to see it are interesting, much more so than the protagonist who seems to be caught in a life that's not her own. She wants to please her Polish immigrant parents, mostly her mother. And there is no pleasing her mother.
There are strong Roman Catholic themes and Polish-American themes which in some ways remind me of my maternal grandparents and their family tree, but not in a tangible, ah yes, they acted like that way. More in an "I understand the idea here" kind of way.