{"id":2442,"date":"2012-06-17T15:19:06","date_gmt":"2012-06-17T20:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sistahsontheshelf.com\/blog\/?p=2442"},"modified":"2020-05-08T22:32:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T02:32:36","slug":"finding-us-by-t-jurrette-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/?p=2442","title":{"rendered":"Finding Us by T. Jurrette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B006WP0430\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;linkCode=li3&amp;tag=sistontheshel-20&amp;linkId=d86110df2287ef6cdd3908eb2d111b02&amp;language=en_US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=B006WP0430&amp;Format=_SL250_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=sistontheshel-20&amp;language=en_US\" width=\"239\" height=\"338\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><strong>Publisher\/Date:\u00a0<\/strong> Lulu.com, July 2011<br \/>\n<strong>Genre: <\/strong> Romance<br \/>\n<strong>Pages:\u00a0<\/strong> 140<\/p>\n<p><strong><p><strong class=\"rating\">Rating:<\/strong>&nbsp;<img src=\"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/xavins-review-ratings\/default\/star.png\" alt=\"&#9733;\" title=\"4\/5\" \/><img src=\"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/xavins-review-ratings\/default\/star.png\" alt=\"&#9733;\" title=\"4\/5\" \/><img src=\"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/xavins-review-ratings\/default\/star.png\" alt=\"&#9733;\" title=\"4\/5\" \/><img src=\"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/xavins-review-ratings\/default\/star.png\" alt=\"&#9733;\" title=\"4\/5\" \/><img src=\"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/xavins-review-ratings\/default\/blank_star.png\" alt=\"&#9734;\" title=\"4\/5\" \/>&nbsp;<\/p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was more than a year ago when I pronounced <a href=\"http:\/\/sotspromoblog.wordpress.com\/just-this-sistahs-opinion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">there were no marriages<\/a> in the novels I read. I\u2019ve finally found one, thanks to T. Jurrette\u2019s <strong><em>FINDING US<\/em><\/strong>, a great lesbian novel about marriage and its ups and downs.<\/p>\n<p>Dana Reynolds and Te\u2019anna Marks (better known as Tea) get to know each other through a mutual friend, and after taking it slow, find themselves deeply in love, beginning a life together. Tea, finally leaves her comfortable job as a retail buyer to launch her pastry shop, and Dana is satisfied with her work as a legal assistant with the District Attorney\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>Despite having ghost of relationships past hanging over them \u2013 Tea being friends with an ex, while her social-climbing girlfriend Camille makes unwelcome appearances \u2013 they press on. With a near perfect love, their next logical step is marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Happily ever after seems in arm\u2019s reach, especially when soon after the wedding the couple works to get Tea pregnant. Dana has never been happier, having the love she wants and adopting Tea\u2019s family since being estranged from her own.<\/p>\n<p>When Dana is formed to work closely with the bougie Camille, she neglects to tell Tea how bad things are the office in order to protect her wife. Thinking she can handle Camille\u2019s harassment, the hole Dana\u2019s in gets harder to climb out of.<\/p>\n<p>And Dana doesn\u2019t want to lose Tea \u2013 the one thing in the world she calls home.<\/p>\n<p>Jurette\u2019s <em>Finding Us<\/em> is a noteworthy portrayal of married lesbians. Though Tea and Dana\u2019s love appears easy, the decisions they face are far from it. It depicts what sacrifice matrimony really is. <em>Finding Us<\/em> simply shows love isn\u2019t faultless, but is still worth it.<\/p>\n<p>Note to T. Jurrette: I\u2019m waiting for my sequel. I want to know what happens with one of my favorite couples.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reviewed June 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publisher\/Date:\u00a0 Lulu.com, July 2011 Genre: Romance Pages:\u00a0 140 It was more than a year ago when I pronounced there were no marriages in the novels I read. I\u2019ve finally found one, thanks to T. Jurrette\u2019s FINDING US, a great lesbian novel about marriage and its ups and downs. Dana Reynolds and Te\u2019anna Marks (better known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[41,306,308,401,486],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2442"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7302,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions\/7302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sistahsontheshelf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}