Name: Speak Through the Wind
ISBN: 9781590526255

Allison K. Pittman

What could Kassandra possibly learn in Wyoming Territory that life's cruelties haven't already taught her? She has strayed long and far - certainly past the point of even God's love...

A Novel

Speak Through the Wind

After a lifetime of mistakes…can Kassandra ever be forgiven? New York City, 1841 When Reverend Joseph plucks a gravely wounded child from the mean streets of Manhattan’s rough Five Points District, he intends to give her a real home. And though Kassandra flourishes in the preacher’s house, learning Bible verses at his knee and going to school, as a young teenager she makes the first of many devastating decisions, running away from the only haven she’s ever known. What follows is a waking nightmare: life in a tiny room above a brothel, the loss of a child, a lover’s rejection, and finally, life as a prostitute. As circumstances lead her further and further from the reverend’s secure home, an ashamed Kassandra is certain that neither God, nor Joseph, will ever forgive her. Feeling as though she has nothing left to lose and nowhere to go, Kassandra leaves behind her hopes of redemption and heads west to California, where she is transformed into the woman known as Sadie. Unfortunately, nothing in her life is pointing to a happy ending, and Sadie is forced to grapple with the question: Once you’ve passed the point of no return, can you ever go back?

Jeni Enjaian

Since I have already reviewed this book once, I will not take the time to write a complete review again. However, I will note that Ms. Pittman's ordering of the books in the series seems a bit odd. She plops Gloria down amongst these characters in the first book as if the first book is really the second or third. The introduction of the characters really happens in the second book. I find that odd. Be that as it may. I still really love this book.

A review from my old blog...

Once again I came across a book that I cannot remember putting on my list or why I did so but I was not disappointed.

A review that I read somewhere compared the book to Redeeming Love (one of my absolute favorite books of all time) and to Janette Oke, a beloved author from my childhood but not one now. (Her writing style is very cliche).

With that sort of information in my mind before I opened the book I had no idea what to expect. I didn't even really know what the basic idea of the story was because of the library stickers on the back covering half of the summary.

Mrs. Pittman did not disappoint. I never thought that I would discover a story so like Redeeming Love but this book rivals that story. Of course, I would not have liked the book if the plots had been similar or dealt with similar things. This book certainly was not a copy but dealt with many of the same issues.

Mrs. Pittman creates such a well of sympathy and empathy for Kassandra. Her life is so full of trials and things that happen beyond her control that seem to knock her down just when she gets her feet under her again. This series of events draws on the well of sympathy in the reader. In addition, Kassandra makes her own horrible mistakes... things that we finite humans are so prone to do. ("prone to wander, Lord I feel it, prone to leave the God I love") The trouble that Kassandra's poor decisions plunge her into draws on the well of empathy in the reader. I wonder what I would do if I were faced with the same choices as Kassandra.

Allison Pittman is a new favorite author of mine. I definitely am going to sample more of her work.

Speak Through the Wind A Novel

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