FREE: The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller

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What a deliciously wonderful book! (For those who haven't seen the movie with Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep, I recommend that too.) The author spins a sensuous and romantic story about a Robert Kincaid, a wandering magazine photographer and Francesca Johnson, an Iowa housewife born in Italy. The author provides two characters who approach each other with respect and caution, yet they both strive to fulfill their need to soar above the mundane, to celebrate life, and culpt a moment in time that transends commitment and soul smothering societal expectations. Their encounter, frought with dangers, survives only in their psyches. Both know that what could have been, should have been, could not be. Yet, hearts persist, tickling both characters' minds. Both remember a few stolen moments when two souls sang in perfect harmony, but through circumstance must not sing again.