Embrace Me

UPDATE!  Embrace Me has won the honor of being one of Library Journal's best books of 2008!

Lisa Samson is an artisan of hope.  Here is a book filled with beauty,  and also with truth... in a world that is starved for both. --Shane Claiborne  author, activist, and recovering sinner (thesimpleway.org).

Available now at Amazon, and on the New Fiction table at your local Barnes and Noble Booksellers.

Review in from Library Journal:

Samson, Lisa. Embrace Me. Thomas Nelson. Mar. 2008. c.320p. ISBN 978-1-59554-210-6. pap. $14.99. CF

Unlikely best friends Valentine and Lella, one scarred horribly and the other a multiple amputee, make ends meet by working in the Roland Wayfaring Marvels and Oddities show, always conscious that they are different from "regular people." Samson's compelling tale of their quest to make sense of their own little world and their need for love and acceptance will stay with the reader long after finishing the novel. This is truly grown-up inspirational fiction with unusual, complex characters; the publisher compares it to Sara Gruen's Water for Elephants. Highly recommended for all collections. Christy Award winner Samson (Songbird) lives in Kentucky.

Comments

[Jeane]

Congratulations Lisa! I loved the part that says: grown-up inspirational fiction, because that is most certainly what it is!

[Jeane]

Congratulations Lisa! I loved the part that says: grown-up inspirational fiction, because that is most certainly what it is!

[Becky Gooch]

Embrace Me is out. I bought mine yesterday at my local Christian store. Can't wait to read it!

[Kim]

Lisa,
I just finished EMBRACE ME, and I am left deeply moved! What an amazing story!

I'll be touring the book on my blog and wanted to see if you had time for a couple of questions. If so, please email me at:
kimfurd (at) hotmail (dot) com

I am a member of the CFBA, and I love to include interviews when time permits. I hope to hear from you soon!

Kim

[Rick]

Lisa,
I saw the teaser in my Books A Million weekly email and it looked intereting. I bought it Monday and finished it last night. What a great story! Lives can change, people can change. I can relate to Gus, although he was and is a little more extreme. I'm reading another new book entitled The Original Sanctuary by David Terry and Marc Owings; they could both be a Gus. You said you write so people will know they are not alone...thank you! Rick

[Kay Day]

I loved Embrace Me! I love the deeper meaning and all about it, but as a new writer, I really loved the characters. It wasn't until after I finished reading it that I realized that I shouldn't have really liked those people, yet you made people who would seem unlovely, lovely. And I mean because of their attitudes. But then, isn't that the way God sees us?

[Rhonda Roberts]

Lisa-
I am halfway through with Embrace Me and I can not put it down. My girlfriend Elysa introduced me to your books and I am HOOKED.

[dawn]

I just finished Embrace Me and wanted to tell you how much it moved me. My faith had always been very strong until a few years ago when life experiences have left me doubting myself and my faith. Your book has spoken to me in a way that, even though I have been searching, nothing else has. My spirit has been lifted and I wanted to say Thank You.

[Alison Strobel Morrow]

Just read on Chip's blog that "Embrace me" got voted one of the best books of the year by...someone, I've already forgotten, my memory is just *that* bad. Anyway, I was SO happy to hear that! I'm so glad to see your books are finally getting the accolades they deserve. You're such a unique, inspiring, and poignant voice. Congratulations to you, my friend.

[lisa]

Thanks so much, Alison!!

[Tina]

Congratulations, Lisa. This is wonderful news.

[Rhonda]

Of course it did, sister! Congrats, love you girl!

[Tara Eastman]

Lisa,
I just picked this book up over Christmas break and started it this week. Congratulations!

[mandie]

Loved this book. :)