A review by holmstead
Nowhere But Home by Liza Palmer

5.0

I am SO glad to have picked this one back up again. At the beginning of this story, I did not take to Queenie right away, the story didn't click for me and I told myself I'd come back to it. After a month or so, I tried again. And somehow, once my mind was ready to experience this life of hers, she slowly evolved into this wonderful person, from family that love and adore her, despite her past and her mother. This is a story of a woman that is running from her past, but it's her past that makes her who she is, and she is a damn fine woman. It's about love, heartache, secrets, and the petty bullshit people who are unhappy try to make themselves feel better by putting those good people down. It's about small towns, gossip, and did I mention secrets? But that doesn't make it any less meaningful. Perhaps it makes it more. Queenie leaves her last known address in the Big Apple, comes back to some comforts of home, she also takes quite an interesting part-time job, serving "last meals" to people on death row. This was just so touching, deep, and REAL. OMG and I forgot to mention something else...THE FOOD!! Wow, it made me want to eat Texas, southern comfort food year round. Exceptional!

I LOVED this book. Now that I'm finished, I'm just a little sad, and a bit jealous of those who have yet to read this lovely, lovely story.