In a FarOff Land, Stephanie Landsem
In a FarOff Land, Stephanie Landsem
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In a Far-Off Land

Author: Stephanie Landsem

Narrator: Brittany Goodwin

Unabridged: 11 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/04/2021


Synopsis

A story about the price of fame, the truth sacrificed on its altar, and the love that brings a prodigal daughter home.
As the Great Depression hits the Midwest, Minerva Sinclaire runs away to Hollywood, determined to make it big and save the family farm. But beauty and moxie don’t pay the bills in Tinseltown, and she’s caught in a downward spiral of poverty, desperation, and compromise. Finally, she’s about to sign with a major studio and make up for it all. Instead, she wakes up next to a dead film star and is on the run for a murder she didn’t commit.

Only two unwilling men―Oscar, a Mexican gardener in danger of deportation, and Max, a too-handsome agent battling his own demons―can help Mina escape corrupt police on the take and the studio big shots trying to frame her. But even her quick thinking and grit can't protect her from herself. Alone, penniless, and carrying a shameful secret, Mina faces the consequences of the heartbreaking choices that brought her to ruin . . . and just might bring her back to where she belongs.

About Stephanie Landsem

Stephanie Landsem writes historical fiction for women, about women. As a child, she was the girl who always had her nose in a book and enjoyed her history class. Today, she loves to talk fiction, history, and general literary nerdiness. For more information, visit StephanieLandsem.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Heidi

From Endorsement: LOVED this book! One of the best books I’ve read this year! In A Far-Off Land is a beautiful story echoing the power of mercy, forgiveness, and love as it peels back the multi-faceted layers of those living in Hollywood during the Great Depression. Stephanie Landsem weaves a heroine......more

Goodreads review by Rachel

Endorsement: Fans of Susan Meissner and Kristina McMorris will be spellbound by Landsem's gorgeously researched historical. Told with heart-wrenching conviction, In A Far Off Land is a lyrical and thematic treatise on redemption, loss and love and wielded with such surprising grace the reader will ha......more

This book took me THROUGH it! 4.5 to 5 stars This book is a heartbreaking but beautiful prodigal daughter story - THAT ENDING has me in tears! The good kind. Minerva goes to Hollywood from the Midwest in an effort to make it big to make money to help her sister and father from their debt so they don’t......more