Becoming Us: A Novel

· Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Shannon McManus
5.0
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From the author of the best-selling Christy Miller and SisterChicks series comes a new book of community, friendship, and tackling the hard things of life with God and loved ones around a table.

Five young moms, including beloved Gunn character Christy Miller, gather to share meals and soon become unlikely best friends. The regular gatherings provide opportunities for the women to reveal their stories, and those life stories endear them to each other. They experience their lives naturally meshing as they raise their children together in community. In Becoming Us the group find ways to challenge, encourage, and help each other become the nurturing mothers they wished they'd had when they were growing up. They unite to be remembered for what they do as moms and not for what was done to them.

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5.0
3 reviews
Sandra Burson
May 8, 2019
Let me start by saying I love the cover of this book. Now that I have finished reading the story, the cover means even more to me. I want to have a summer party with the ladies in my life just like Jennalyn's. This is a very special story about becoming a good friend, a better sister, daughter or mother. Every woman needs a Jennalyn, Sierra, Christy, Tess or Emily in their life. I have gained so many wonderful ideas from this read. Without going into detail and spoiling the story for others, let's just say there are some fantastic party and get together ideas I will definitely like to try. Christy, one of the characters in the story, would ask God each year to impress upon her a word for the year, something she should be working on. In the book the present word is LISTEN. So she shares with her friends different ways God was bringing this to her attention. At the beginning of this new year, what a wonderful time to pray and ask God to impress on me a Word or area I need to do better at. The Word is going to be different for each woman, depending where we are with our walk with Him or our family dynamics. This group of ladies called themselves the Daughters Of Eve, or DOE's. The support and understanding they develop for each other is phenomenal. Each lady has her own strength, and they combine these for the good of the whole. My daughters are grown now, but this is one time I wish I could go back in time. I would love to have a celebration of their entry into womanhood for each of my girls, as the DOE's did for Emily's daughter Audra. Our girls are all princesses and should be treated as such. After all our father is The King of Kings. This is a wonderfully written story. There is so much content here, you will want to read it again so you do not miss anything. I received a copy of this book from the publishers WaterBrook and Multnomah through NetGalley. The opinions expressed in this review are my own
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Jennifer “Jen” Perkins
October 17, 2019
Great book
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About the author

ROBIN JONES GUNN is the best-selling Christian author of 90 books, including several series aimed at teen girls, the widely popular Christy Miller series, as well as Christian fiction for adult women and several non-fiction books. Her books have sold over 4 million copies worldwide. She makes her home in Hawaii.

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