{"id":9161,"date":"2021-05-18T09:51:56","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T15:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=9161"},"modified":"2021-05-18T10:24:09","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T16:24:09","slug":"surviving-carmelita-by-susan-miura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=9161","title":{"rendered":"Surviving Carmelita by Susan Miura"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Haunting and beautiful\u2026 A poignant tale.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miura\u2019s powerful, uplifting latest delves into themes of guilt, trauma, and recovery. After Josie accidently kills Carmelita, her best friend\u2019s little daughter, she is unable to function. Weighed down with guilt, she leaves her Chicago suburban home to stay with a cousin in Key West, unaware the path to redemption is just around the corner. Miura takes readers on a journey of heartbreak and healing as the characters struggle to find forgiveness in their hearts. Miura\u2019s complex worldbuilding is impressive, and she does a marvelous job crafting characters who, while damaged emotionally, are also resilient and relatable. Josie and Ana\u2019s relationship is etched in reality, and readers will have no choice but to root for their friendship. This stirring exploration of compassion, understanding, guilt, redemption, family, and friendship delivers the goods. Heartbreaking and uplifting at once, the novel makes for a page-turner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Surviving Carmelita<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Susan Miura<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CrossRiver Media Group<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buy now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pub date April 20, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ISBN 9781936501571<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Price $12.99 (USD) Paperback, $4.11 Kindle edition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Haunting and beautiful\u2026 A poignant tale. Miura\u2019s powerful, uplifting latest delves into themes of guilt, trauma, and recovery. After Josie accidently kills Carmelita, her best friend\u2019s little daughter, she is unable to function. Weighed down with guilt, she leaves her Chicago suburban home to stay with a cousin in Key West, unaware the path to redemption is just around the corner. Miura takes readers on a journey of heartbreak and healing as the characters struggle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145610851,"featured_media":9162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56739],"tags":[38100332,24777292,7223,726,7215,3328,178,52053,1747,8053601,1136176,62857929,1473,1008073,856121,309,349],"class_list":["post-9161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-short-reviews","tag-amreading","tag-amwriting","tag-author","tag-authors","tag-book-review","tag-book-reviews","tag-books","tag-christian-fiction","tag-fiction","tag-indie-author","tag-indie-books","tag-indiebooks","tag-reading","tag-review-blog","tag-review-website","tag-reviews","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pajKJn-2nL","amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/surviviving-carmelita.jpg?fit=324%2C499&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145610851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9161"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9170,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161\/revisions\/9170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}