Church Shoes

Decency was a word Alice Quint’s mother lived by and was a beacon against what she called the destructive forces. In one way, Alice had spent much of her young life trying to fit into her shoes, figuratively speaking. She was obsessed with a certain pair that belonged to her and what they represented to her.
During the 1930s, after her mother was abducted in a small Middle-Western town, Alice hoped she might be alive somewhere. She desperately wanted to find her and try to make sense of what happened. With regret, her efforts put her in a place she didn’t think she would ever be.
Her attempts to unravel and expose a tragic long held family secret places her and her younger sister in jeopardy from which they barely escape with their lives. What happened followed her like a curse into her own marriage.

(Literary Titan Book Award)