The castle was built from white Georgia marble, and Lisa Turner believed it would last forever. So would everything else.

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Her father, Glenn W. Turner, was a sharecropper's son who became one of America's most talked-about promoters. With Koscot and Dare to Be Great, he filled auditoriums, landed in the pages of Life magazine, and made people believe their circumstances didn't have to decide their future. At home, he was simply Daddy, the man who made room at the table for strangers and flew a puppy home in a laundry basket on a Learjet.

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Then the marble cracked. The courtrooms and headlines came first, then the divorce, then a stepfather who used God's words to control. Finally came the day her father reported to prison in the Arizona desert. Lisa spent years searching for belonging and carrying shame she didn't have words for, waiting to be chosen.

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Years later, at thirty-six, sitting on a couch in her bedroom and quietly planning to leave the family she loved, she discovered she had never been alone.

 

Room At The Table is a story about a father America could never decide about and a daughter who never stopped loving him. It's about a marriage that chose her again and again, and a faith that finally became her own. And it's about the table that stayed, with an empty seat always waiting for whoever needs it next.