Buried Secrets, Anne Hanson
Buried Secrets, Anne Hanson
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Buried Secrets
Looking for Frank and Ida

Author: Anne Hanson

Narrator: Courtney Patterson

Unabridged: 10 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/13/2024


Synopsis

WHEN ANNE HANSON'S DAD FIRST ASKED her to investigate the secret past of his parents, little did she know what she was getting into. For two decades, despite all her digging, she failed to unearth even the tiniest speck of evidence that the families of her grandparents, Frank and Ida Hanson, had ever existed. If her quest were a detective novel, its title would have been, "The Case of the Missing Ancestors."

Finally, Anne unearthed her grandparents' true identities and the secrets they took their graves. Journeying into an early twentieth century drama of pain and heartache, she solved a mystery from an era when a young couple, thwarted by social conventions, could simply vanish and create new lives. They radically altered their family destiny, with aftereffects that reverberated for generations.

Buried Secrets: Looking for Frank and Ida is, ultimately, a love story. When she learned the truth of her grandparents' past, Anne comprehended the true depth of their love. Buried Secrets also illuminates the love between a dad and the daughter who gave him answers he had longed for his entire life.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Caroline on October 09, 2023

I wanted to love this, but there was a lot of repetition and supposition about feelings and actions that can't possibly be known. Added to that were the "imagined" sections which I found distracting. I would have much rather had read about Frank and Ida's story without the author's memoir of her res......more

Goodreads review by James on October 02, 2022

Riveting, suspenseful and intensely personal, “Buried Secrets” is an intricately woven tale of unimaginable pain and deception kept hidden for decades, and the fiercely determined detective work that ultimately uncovered the shocking truth. Ultimately a treatise on love, family and responsibility, a......more

Goodreads review by Brooke on March 05, 2023

Buried Secrets is about a family’s secret that went unknown for generations until the author uncovered it. This book is part memoir but also includes pieces of the ‘imagined past’. Both sides of this story, the current day quest to figure out past secrets and also the love story of a couple from 80......more

Goodreads review by Jeanette on February 17, 2023

I felt as though I were right there with Anne as she searched for the truth about her grandparents. Her descriptive narration along with imagined sections provide the reader with just the right combination to keep us on the edge of our seat, rooting for her to solve the mystery of her family backgro......more