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Site_link post a commentPaul s teachers say he s distracted and they re not wrong With the demands of a struggling farm Allied boots in Europe and secrets surrounding his mother s death who can blame him And the expectations of his unapproachable father are seemingly out of reach When a financial windfall sparks a rags to riches transformation it also sets in motion events that will test young Paul to his core This coming of age story connects Paul s tumultuous adolescence to his unfulfilled adulthood Across those decades he searches for redemption and reconciliation with the ghosts of his past. The Promise of Unbroken Straw booking The Promise of Unbroken Straw will lure readers into an epic and unforgettable tale of three generations of a family saturated with secrets grief and unrealized stubborn love Ken Steele takes us on a sweeping journey from rags to riches to rags tofrom rural to urban from heartbreak to healing from lost to found It s a story as deep and complicated and revealing and wonderful as life itself Mark McKinnon Cheif Media Advisor to five Presidential campaigns Regular columnist for Vanity Fair The London Daily Telegraph and Daily Beast The Promise of Unbroken StrawThis book was absolutely fine but felt so formulaic in a way that sort of. Book The Promise of Unbroken straw man bored me The story has heart to be sure and I felt empathy for every single character in it To me this is book was like white background noise comforting if not exactly compelling 1960810138 Your soul is a wheatfield in the windThe change of pressure sucks you right back inThose autumn nights will once beginBecause your soul is a wheatfield in the windYour love s a seed waiting to be sownIt s a vintage record waiting for a homeSo erase those pencil marks that show how much you ve grownBecause your love s a seed waiting to be sownYour eyes are a view into a worldWhere you see the dogs chasing after squirrelsWhere you see a dream just recently supportedYour eyes are a view into a worldYour heart is a compass to the blindIt brought me to that voluntary lineWhere heavy eyes were told you ll be just fineYour heart is a compass to the blindTo the blind but now I seeSave Henry 1960810138 Such a compelling story So well written with deep characters realistic dialogue and character dynamics It s just so good It s a WWII coming of age rags to riches story that deals with the effect of money or the lack thereof and family secrets have on people and relationships. Book The Promise of Unbroken strawless If you enjoy well written historical fiction that gives you a clear sense of place and character development you ll love this novel 1960810138 Please note my review refers to a few details in the book that I don t consider spoilers but if you don t want to know any details of how any character s lives are like at the end of the book don t read. PDF The Promise of Unbroken straw man When I read fiction I want to be totally submersed in the world of the book Any clunky phrasing errors etc that take me out of the world are frustrating Now Steele s work is actually better than many in this regard and the four stars are for the compelling characters storyline and settings I also like how not knowing totally how things were going to work out and even things like not knowing why Paul called his dad Jake eventually addressed in the book but Paul didn t know because it reflected some of the messages of the book very well But there were definitely probably at least every few pages incidences where I rewrote sentences in my head to flow better The clunkiest and most often seen was when Steele started a sentence with an ing verb but then the subject did not agree with the verb I apologize for not remembering what this type of structure is called but here s a not actually from book example Coming out of my front door the wind hit me full in the face. The Promise of Unbroken strawflower plant This sentence means that the wind was coming out of the front door and hit the narrator in the face when it did Correct would be When I came out of my front door the wind hit me full in the face or as I was coming or coming out of my front door I was hit full in the face by the wind This type of structure occurred many times and I got and irritated each time In fact I m not sure I ever saw that construction used correctly But the most egregious error to me and one that could have so easily been avoided was well let me backtrack I assume Paul Amy etc are just about the age of my parents or a little bit younger because they were in Jr High then HS in the earlier time setting of the book Therefore at the very latest they d have graduated from HS say 1950 my folks graduated in 1947 Unless Amy delayed college entry for TWO DECADES she would not have gone to Princeton Princeton didn t admit women until 1970 And there are so many traditionally high caliber to demonstrate Amy s lasting intelligence institutions that could have been subbed in that are far enough from MIT to have been a cause for the relationship to fray thereby making them fine candidates for the alma mater of Amy. The Promise of Unbroken strawflower plant At any rate it s still well worth a read and I ll read future books by Steele 1960810138