Ex-con. Nobody cares … except a tiny girl named Bea.
Clarence Timmelsen—locked up in prison for sixty years. Now he’s free in a nursing home. Still imprisoned by his angry heart. He’s been set up.
Bea’s mommy, Katty—brutally abused by a former boyfriend. She follows her family’s tradition for living and parenting. Until the boyfriend comes back for their daughter.
Michael seems to be everybody’s best friend. Is he a carpenter? A renovator of old buildings? He seem to be everywhere and how does he know …
Clarence raises his head and looks right into Michael’s eyes for a few seconds. “What on earth do you mean by that? Dad learned from me, too?” Another second. “And how would you know anythings about him—or me?”
“ … to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound.” Isaiah 61:1b KJV
NYT Bestselling Author Tosca Lee: "A curmudgeonly ex-con senior citizen, a little girl named Bea, and her addict mother. An unlikely trio crosses paths on the road to redemption from their pasts in small town Nebraska--with a little help from above. With true-to-life grit and characters you love to love (and some you love to hate), RELEASED is a fresh slice of hope in a world of injured souls."
The story line weaves back and forth between a mother (that you love to hate) and her young daughter who is somehow filled with wisdom and insight, and an 80 year old convict who after 60 years is released from prison to the custody of a nursing home in a small Nebraska town. The story takes place over a very short period of time but uses flashbacks to tie loose ends back into the story line. It is an extremely visual book and few details escape the storyteller but sometimes you feel that you have been beaten over the head a bit with them. It is a triumph of good vs. evil which also tends to give the book some predictability. The author does a great job of keeping you in suspense by supplying details of the characters in the book very slowly and over time but you walk away wishing you knew more about the past lives of these characters.
