Ron Bahar is an insecure, self-deprecating, seventeen-year-old Nebraskan striving to please his Israeli immigrant parents, Ophira and Ezekiel, while remaining true to his own dreams.
Student Wendy Goldberg spends a year in Jerusalem questioning the lives of American Jews who return both to Israel itself and to traditional religious practices.
A major discovery, with echoes of Clarice Lispector, Llansol's groundbreaking linked novellas present her unique literary vision of writing as lived life, conjuring historical figures and their ideas into her world.
Christian contemporary singing sensation, daughter of Christian radio and media family counselor icons, HARMONY HARPER, has spent her entire life serving God.
Orphaned when her father leaves her to go fight in the civil war, stuck in a life that seems to be going nowhere, Margaret Roe signs up to be a mail-order bride.
These stories, all set in nearby towns in the Alabama Black Belt-a swath of dark soil that runs west to east through the central part of the state-explore the history, culture, and human spirit of the people who live there, and those that came before them and were shaped by the same rich and corrupted geography.
