Til The Well Runs Dry by Lauren Francis-Sharma

Til the Well Runs Dry by Lauren Francis-Sharma is literary fiction with a punch. The novel takes place in Trinidad and also in America.The novel is about family. There is Farouk, the father, of Wesley, Patsy, Jacqueline and the baby girl. There is also the mother, Marcia Garcia. Farouk does not live with the family.  Marcia Garcia is with her children through thick and thin. However, when the seemingly most important and emotional event happens to her baby girl she is not there. Marcia Garcia does leave the best instructions she can with Jacqueline in case something unforeseeable happens in the family.

This makes sense. Although Jacqueline is not the first born, she is always available to help her mother raise the family. Family roles can not be dictated. Patsy is the first born. She lives her life the way she wants to live it. Patsy is the first of the children to meet failure head-on, and she keep on going. Then, there is Wesley, the brother and son. He takes after Mama Marcia who is a seamstress. He loves to sew and sews well. Only when Wesley sews does his life speak loudly.

 Life is a sewing project. Wesley and Marcia Garcia and the other members of the family, a Trinidadian family, are striving to sew their lives together. There is no wrong way or right way to approach the pattern. There is only one way. The personal way chosen by a particular person. In other words, I can do it this way and not that way. Take me or leave me, but my family will always love me. laurenfrancissharma.com/

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