Tumbleweeds

By Leila Meacham

Book Overview

Recently orphaned, eleven-year-old Cathy Benson feels she has been dropped into a cultural and intellectual wasteland when she is forced to move from her academically privileged life in California to the small town of Kersey in the Texas Panhandle where the sport of football reigns supreme. She is quickly taken under the unlikely wings of up-and-coming gridiron stars and classmates John Caldwell and Trey Don Hall, orphans like herself, with whom she forms a friendship and eventual love triangle that will determine the course of the rest of their lives.

Taking the three friends through their growing up years until their high school graduations when several tragic events uproot and break them apart, the novel expands to follow their careers and futures until they reunite in Kersey at forty years of age. Told with all of Meacham's signature drama, unforgettable characters, and plot twists, readers will be turning the pages, desperate to learn how it all plays out.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 145550923X
• ISBN13: 9781455509232
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.3" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Excellent book,

thoroughly enjoyable.....I really enjoyed this book as well as Somerset...

A Great Read

I loved the characters in this book. This is a heart-warming story about two boys (later men) who fall in love with the same girl. I couldn't put this book down. It was the 1st Leila Meacham book I read. After reading this I read "Roses", "Somerset", "Titans" and "Dragonfly". All great books. Her other books that are out now were written years before her 5 great novels. I purchased 1 of them and it starts off with an apology from Ms Meacham that it is a love story that she wrote before she became an accomplished author. I read a few pages and then gave the book away.