Moon over Lake Elmo

From her bedroom window, nine-year-old Angela can hear the gunshots and see the firelight of the L.A. riots. A world away, Angelarsquo's father looks out his own window and sees a pair of bright-red cardinals in the brilliant Minnesota snow. In the pages of his own fatherrsquo's diary, nearly a half-century old, he has learned some surprising truths about the past. And in his letters to his long-estranged daughter, he promises her a different kind of futurehellip. From a fatherrsquo's struggle to set things right to a young girlrsquo's struggle to survive abuse and abandonment, Moon Over Lake Elmo is a work of quiet power and personal triumph from the bestselling author of such novels as Silent Snow and The Weatherman. It is a tale of separation and sacrifice, regret and reunion, that will resonate with anyone who has watched a family break apart -and hoped against hope for the best.Thayer, Steve is the author of 'Moon over Lake Elmo' with ISBN 9780451203731 and ISBN 0451203739.