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The Love You Save

A Memoir

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The Love You Save

By: Goldie Taylor
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
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The Love You Save will console and inspire countless people."—J.R. Moehringer, New York Times bestselling author of The Tender Bar

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings meets Educated in this harrowing, deeply hopeful memoir of family, faith and the power of books—from acclaimed journalist and human rights activist Goldie Taylor

Aunt Gerald takes in anyone who asks, but the conditions are harsh. For her young niece Goldie Taylor, abandoned by her mother and coping with trauma of her own, life in Gerald’s East St. Louis comes with nothing but a threadbare blanket on the living room floor.

But amid the pain and anguish, Goldie discovers a secret. She can find kinship among writers like James Baldwin and Toni Morrison. She can find hope in a nurturing teacher who helps her find her voice. And books, she realizes, can save her life.

Goldie Taylor's debut memoir shines a light on the strictures of race, class and gender in a post-Jim Crow America while offering a nuanced, empathetic portrait of a family in a pitched battle for its very soul.

Profoundly moving, exquisitely rendered and ultimately uplifting, The Love You Save is a story about hidden strength, perseverance against unimaginable odds, the beauty and pain of girlhood, and the power of the written word.

©2023 Goldie Taylor (P)2023 Harlequin Enterprises, Limited
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Masterful Storytelling • Courageous Memoir • Heartfelt Narrative • Real-life Depiction • Vulnerable Account
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Loved the story. Felt like I lived it. Glad for the daughter and mother towards the end. I, too, survived those 89 blocks. Good for Goldie!!

RESILIENCE

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The reader was excellent and drew me in to the characters immediately. The narrator made the story even greater then it already is. Highly recommend.

Characters Come To Life

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I can see the nook by the basement stairs, hear auntie‘s scowl every time she called her niece’s name, and feel the sudsy water when Goldie’s has to do dishes yet again. I shared a similar longing to be carried away from other people’s hands at this age. The reader was absolutely fabulous!

Best Read of 2024 !

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We all need to be loved. Children are God’s gift and they should be allowed to live without being violated.

Endurance

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I was so committed to every challenge she faced that I felt like “we” had to see the good come soon. Great read filled with hope.

The struggle was real

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I appreciated that she wrote about her strengths and her challenges. She told her story with a “flaws and all” style. Her writing brings me to places that I can identify with, even though my life is much different. I love this narrator.

Raw and honest

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Love - it is complicated. Goldie Taylor a masterful job presenting her story and acknowledging the complicated aspects of love. A must listen!!!

I don’t have words to describe

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This was an absolutely brave and beautiful story. I identified with so much of it. Thanks so much for sharing it with us.

Beautiful Story

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Loved every second of this story, so much real life. So many real people! Doesn’t get much better.

Just keep getting back up!!

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I enjoyed the vulnerability of this book. Hard to hear at times but so relatable by many. Definitely recommend.

Heartfelt story…

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