Complicated Family Relationships

 Walking in Tall Weeds by Robin W. Pearson 

Author Robin Pearson writes a family drama rooted in the south. It centers around Paulette, her husband Frederick, and their son McKinley. Paulette senses that something is not right about her family, and she tries her best to draw her son back into the fold of his family during the brief time he will be home for her birthday. Her son does have a secret that keeps him at a distance from his mother and she longs for the closeness they had when he was learning at her kitchen table. But not only does she feel distanced from her son, but things are not the way they should be with her husband either. As the story goes on, the reader realizes that this family’s relationships are further complicated by the secrets they keep.

 

Robin writes realistically about the relationships. She explores the relationship between a mother and her son, and about the relationship between a long-married husband and wife. She also explores the relationship between black people and white people and how their relationships are complicated by their past.

 

I enjoyed reading this book because it presented an unfamiliar point of view of black people in Christian fiction, as well as covering the more familiar topic of complicated family relationships. Readers of women’s fiction will enjoy this book. I am grateful to Tyndale House publishers for the complimentary copy of the ARC.