How Sweet It Is - Alice J. Wisler [0]
“Ms. Wisler balances small-town North Carolina, eccentric southern relatives, and barbecued chicken with the serene culture of Japan and Harrison Michaels’ Japanese cuisine and koi garden. Her graceful writing had me sighing and reading certain passages over again with pure delight.”
—Cheryl Klarich, Writing Remnants
“You will come to love Nicole’s eclectic family and you will cheer her as she makes her very cautious discoveries. I look forward to more beautiful stories from this very talented writer!”
—Kim Ford, Novel Reviews
“Wisler paints her characters with sure, vivid brush stokes. We instantly recognize them even as we recognize their uniqueness. Wisler lets us believe that finding romance can be magical, if we only take the time to look and have the heart to experience that great adventure.”
—My Romance Story
“Alice’s slow, Southern style, filled with Grandma Ducee’s Southern Truths, will carefully unwind the burial clothes that enshroud us and set us free…. Alice is an author to watch, and to fall in love with.”
—Deena Peterson, A Peek at My Bookshelf
“The style of writing just pulls the reader in and connects you with the characters. This was a wonderful debut by Alice Wisler… I am looking forward to reading any future books by her.”
—Deborah Khuanghlawn, Books, Movies, and Chinese Food
“Rain Song is a truly wondrous book, funny and wistful and wise and brave at the same time. It’s full of tiny exquisite moments, marvelous descriptions and astute insights…. It’s a book about ties that bind and traditions that truly make a family. It’s a book about true beauty that sometimes lies deep within…. More than anything, it’s a book about love in its many incarnations.”
—Reader Views
“In Wisler’s likable debut, a young woman is offered a chance to find romance and make peace with her past…. Faith fiction fans will appreciate the strong faith of Nicole’s influential grandmother, Ducee Dubois, who helps Nicole face her fears.”
—Publishers Weekly
“A worthy first novel with a Southern flair, this title addresses dealing with a painful childhood in a realistic way.”
—Library Journal
“Alice is both a talented and gifted writer.”
—Eugene H. Peterson, author of The Message
“… a fresh narrative that will be appreciated most by those who enjoy a story with characters real enough to be a neighbor next door, or your own family members. Rain Song breathes hope into our troubled world.”
—Nancy Leigh Harless, author of Womankind
“Reading Rain Song is like eating a delicious Southern meal— well-balanced in tastes of family, love, and life.”
—Stella Sieber
How Sweet
Books by Alice J. Wisler
Rain Song
How Sweet It Is
How Sweet It Is
Copyright © 2009
Alice J. Wisler
Cover design by Paul Higdon
Photography © Courtney Weittenhiller
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise—without the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews.
Published by Bethany House Publishers
11400 Hampshire Avenue South
Bloomington, Minnesota 55438
Bethany House Publishers is a division of
Baker Publishing Group, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Printed in the United States of America
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wisler, Alice J.
How sweet it is / Alice J. Wisler.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-7642-0478-4 (pbk.)
1. North Carolina—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3623.I846 H69 2009
813'.6—dc22
2009004739
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For all who wish to expand their horizons,
this is for you.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens;
but often we look so long at the closed door that
we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
—Helen Keller
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