I’ve never read anything by River Jordan before so I was particularly excited to be given the opportunity to review this book. I LOVED this author’s style! Saints in Limbo is a delightful book which quickly draws you into the story right from the first chapter. I think the reviews on the cover of the book speak better than I so I combined some of my favorite quotes to give you an idea what others are saying about this book. Here’s my summary from those quotes: River Jordan uses her “literary spice rack” to create an “artfully captivating, lyrical and relentlessly beautiful compelling story of the mysteries of existence and, especially, the mysteries of the human heart.” Prepare yourself to be “transported to a different time and place” where the “ordinary is both mystical and magical.”I have one copy to give away. If you’d like to be in the drawing to win it, please leave me a comment. I will hold the drawing a week from today!

PUBLISHER’S SUMMARY: Ever since her husband Joe died, Velma True’s world has been limited to what she can see while clinging to one of the multicolored threads tied to the porch railing of her home outside Echo, Florida.

When a mysterious stranger appears at her door on her birthday and presents Velma with a special gift, she is rattled by the object’s ability to take her into her memories–a place where Joe still lives, her son Rudy is still young, unaffected by the world’s hardness, and the beginning is closer than the end. As secrets old and new come to light, Velma wonders if it’s possible to be unmoored from the past’s deep roots and find a reason to hope again.
AUTHOR BIO: River Jordan is a critically acclaimed novelist and playwright whose unique mixture of southern and mystic writing has drawn comparisons to Sarah Addison Allen, Leif Enger, and Flannery O’Connor. Her previous works include The Messenger of Magnolia Street, lauded by Kirkus Reviews as “a beautifully written, atmospheric tale.” She speaks around the country and makes her home in Nashville.