Waves of Mercy


Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
33
Narrator
15
Release Date
October 2016
Duration
14 hours 17 minutes
Summary
In 1897, Geesje de Jonge is asked to write a memoir about her experience emigrating from the Netherlands to the Michigan wilderness in honor of her town's fiftieth anniversary. As Geesje recalls the events of the past, a young visitor, Anna Nicholson, mourns a broken engagement. Over the course of one summer, the lives of both women will change forever. Austin Returns with a Multi-Generational Historical Novel Geesje de Jonge crossed the ocean at age seventeen with her parents and a small group of immigrants from the Netherlands to settle in the Michigan wilderness. Fifty years later, in 1897, she's asked to write a memoir of her early experiences as the town celebrates its anniversary. Reluctant at first, she soon uncovers memories and emotions hidden all these years, including the story of her one true love. At the nearby Hotel Ottawa Resort on the shore of Lake Michigan, twenty-three-year-old Anna Nicholson is trying to ease the pain of a broken engagement to a wealthy Chicago banker. But her time of introspection is disturbed after a violent storm aboard a steamship stirs up memories of a childhood nightmare. As more memories and dreams surface, Anna begins to question who she is and whether she wants to return to her wealthy life in Chicago. When she befriends a young seminary student who is working at the hotel for the summer, she finds herself asking him all the questions that have been troubling her. Neither Geesje nor Anna, who are different in every possible way, can foresee the life-altering surprises awaiting them before the summer ends.
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I liked the story but felt the narration could've been better.

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Lynn Fedina

Such a good book but hard times for so many people maked it to read, and yet hard to put down

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Colleen R.

The story was good but the narration was terrible.

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Sirrah704

The story was enjoyable to listen to. You never really knew what was going to be shared in their story in the upcoming chapter. Narration tempo was very slow and had some weird pauses; as if the narrator is translating the script to English while it’s being recorded.

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Anonymous

Good story nice ending

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