This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Free Book Program, which is open to all readers and is completely free. The author will provide you with a free copy of their book in exchange for an honest review. You and the author will discuss what sites you will post your review to and what kind of copy of the book you would like to receive (eBook, PDF, Word, paperback, etc.). To begin, click the purple email icon to send this author a private email.
This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Book Review Exchange Program, which is open to all authors and is completely free. Simply put, you agree to provide an honest review an author's book in exchange for the author doing the same for you. What sites your reviews are posted on (B&N, Amazon, etc.) and whether you send digital (eBook, PDF, Word, etc.) or hard copies of your books to each other for review is up to you. To begin, click the purple email icon to send this author a private email, and be sure to describe your book or include a link to your Readers' Favorite review page or Amazon page.
This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Book Donation Program, which was created to help nonprofit and charitable organizations (schools, libraries, convalescent homes, soldier donation programs, etc.) by providing them with free books and to help authors garner more exposure for their work. This author is willing to donate free copies of their book in exchange for reviews (if circumstances allow) and the knowledge that their book is being read and enjoyed. To begin, click the purple email icon to send this author a private email. Be sure to tell the author who you are, what organization you are with, how many books you need, how they will be used, and the number of reviews, if any, you would be able to provide.
Reviewed by Jamie Michele for Readers' Favorite
In T. N. R. Rogers’s Life Is Everywhere, Sand Hargrove remains in Iowa after Lafay accepts a dance-teaching post in Baton Rouge and eventually takes their young son Joby with her. Sand has never recovered from the death of their infant daughter Rachel, so knowing Joby is a thousand miles away feeds the fear that another child can be taken from him. He tries to finish an independent film starring Ellie Quigley, Lafay’s closest friend, while Ellie’s sixteen-year-old daughter Rilla records her own life in a diary that becomes a private argument with everyone she loves. Sand also enters the orbit of celebrated artist Rainy Mountain Cohen, whose uninhibited approach to love includes her red-haired companion Fletcher. Across one Iowa year, these lives keep crossing until a fire brings Sand and Rilla into the same terrible moment.
T. N. R. Rogers’s Life Is Everywhere is extraordinary literary fiction, and Rogers makes an enormous novel feel like years spent among people whose smallest habits become familiar. The best part is Rilla’s diary. I love how Rogers gives her a voice that can be hilarious in one line before turning painfully honest in the next, with even the misspellings sounding like hers. Sand is excellent too. His love for Joby has fear inside it because Rachel’s death never leaves him, which makes an airport reunion ache. Rainy Mountain Cohen is my absolute favorite. Rogers makes her outrageous enough to fill every room, then gives her one of the book’s wisest observations when she tells Sand that the chances to show love are limited. Well written and incredibly intimate for such a sweeping and intensive novel, readers who enjoy literary family fiction will adore this.
