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Oprah Book Club® Selection, April 1997: Members of the Church of Fire and Brimstone and God's Almighty Baptizing Wind spend their days and nights serving the Lord and waiting for the Rapture--that moment just before the Second Coming of Christ when the saved will be lifted bodily to heaven and the damned will be left behind to face the thousand years of tribulation on earth. The tribulation, according to Grandpa Herman, founder of Fire and Brimstone, will be an ugly time: "He said that we'd run out of food. That big bugs would chase us around and sting us with their tails . . . He said we'd turn on the faucet in the bathroom and find only blood running out . . . He said evil multitudes would come unto us and cut off our limbs, and that we wouldn't die . . . And then he'd say, 'But you don't have to be left behind. You can go straight to Heaven with all of God's special children if you'll only open your hearts to Jesus . . .'"
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Such talk of damnation weighs heavy on the mind of Ninah Huff, the 15-year-old narrator of Sheri Reynolds's second novel, The Rapture of Canaan. To distract her from sinful thoughts about her prayer partner James, Ninah puts pecan shells in her shoes and nettles in her bed. But concentrating on the Passion of Jesus cannot, in the end, deter Ninah and James from their passion for each other, and the consequences prove both tragic and transforming for the entire community.
The Rapture of Canaan is a book about miracles, and in writing it, Reynolds has performed something of a miracle herself. Although the church's beliefs and practices may seem extreme (sleeping in an open grave, mortifying the flesh with barbed wire), its members are complex and profoundly sympathetic as they wrestle with the contradictions of Fire and Brimstone's theology, the temptations of the outside world, and the frailties of the human heart.
Sheri Reynolds was born in rural South Carolina and now lives in Virginia. She has taught English at Virginia Commonwealth University, Old Dominion University, and The College of William and Mary. She is at work on a new novel.
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- PublisherBerkley Books
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0704345021
- ISBN 13 9780704345027
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. 320 pages. Cover wornNinah Huff is the granddaughter of the f ounder of the Church of Fire and Brimstone and God's Almighty Bap tizing Wind, an isolated southern religious community ruled by it s patriarch. Ninah is fourteen and full of contradictory feelings . She sees the outside world only at school, where her long dress es and uncut hair mark her as odd and keep her apart from the oth er girls. She loves her family, but is never sure that she is tru ly holy enough. In particular, she worries about the sanctity of her feelings for James, her prayer partner, as they spend an hour a day together in prayer and meditation, being Jesus to each oth er. When Ninah is discovered to be pregnant, the community is out raged. But in the midst of her tragedy and loneliness, Ninah cont inues to maintain that she is not guilty of the sin of fornicatio n; she says that a holy child grows inside her. No amount of puni shment can make her recant. Seller Inventory # 2502v
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