New Releases by Jim Nelson

Young Hanna thinks her thirteenth birthday will be no different than the one before—until her mother explains the facts of life. Hanna is a “bridge daughter,” born pregnant with her parents' child. In a few months she will give birth and die, leaving her parents with their true daughter. A mature bookworm who dreams of college and career, Hanna is determined to overcome her biological fate. Navigating through a world eerily like our own, she confronts unyielding attitudes and instinctive fears as old as humankind itself. Then Hanna learns of an illegal procedure that will allow her to live to adulthood…at the cost of the child’s life.

This book chronicles two and a half centuries of Nelsons. Characters that have blown up their own homes, built amusement parks and beat their wife and kids. This book is an effort by one of the family members to examine the images and memories of those generations to understand what went right and wrong and how things got to be as they are. These chronicles reflect lives lived large with all the extremes of joy and heartbreak that one could imagine. Furthermore, all of is true - which makes it sometimes unbelievable.