Dodging Prayers and Bullets Beatty Karen
Dodging Prayers and Bullets Beatty Karen A young girl prevails over poverty and religious bigotry to survive childhood abduction, a predatory theologian, family secrets, and the drug culture of the…
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Dodging Prayers and Bullets Beatty Karen
A young girl prevails over poverty and religious bigotry to survive childhood abduction, a predatory theologian, family secrets, and the drug culture of the 1960s.In an Appalachian Mountain town during the early 1950s, guns and domestic abuse are as prevalent as prayer meetings and dubiously ordained preachers. When her family moves up north to an urban setting, she struggles to overcome the social and gender limitations of the late 1950s and 1960s. Young Skyla Fay Jenkins is often forced to choose between what's labeled "righteous" and what she knows to be right.
Decades later, a chance encounter with a childhood nemesis prompts her to revisit the abiding love and playful river romps of her youth, along with a traumatic abduction and family violence.This fictional story celebrates the ability of a child to survive and thrive, despite those who