Angela Hallstrom
Bound on Earth
Parables Publishing, February 2008
Softcover, 197 Pages
ISBN: 978-0961496098
$12.95
Angela Hallstrom’s debut novel Bound on Earth fleshes out the fiction and nonfiction of marriage and family. Through a series of vignettes written from the perspective of different members of the Palmer family (mother, daughter, father, grandparents and others), the book allows its reader to discover the texture of being bound to those we love. It describes what happens between “I do” and our final whispers, the price of raising and losing children, the toll of mental and physical illness, and the not-so-black-and-white choice to leave or to remain. Reading the novel was like looking in a fun-house mirror. I recognized a faint double of myself but it was distorted, turned upside down, made shorter, taller, extended through time and tested. This book does what good fiction should do–distort reality just enough to tell the truth.