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Synopsis
IN 1853, NEWLY MARRIED EMMA BOWMAN ARRIVES IN AFRICA AND STEPS INTO A WORLD OF UNSURPASSED BEAUTY -- AND PERIL.
A PAGE-TURNING ADVENTURE WITH LIFE AND DEATH STAKES FOR THE BODY AND THE SOUL . . .
Born into a life of privilege in rural Georgia, Emma yearns for important work. An ardent passion burns in her soul, spurring her beyond the narrow confines of her family's slave-holding plantation. She meets and weds Henry Bowman, a tremendously attractive former Texas Ranger twice her age, who has turned from the rifle to the cross. Together with their dreams of serving God they take ship for West Africa. Emma leaves every known thing behind, save a writing box Henry has made for her. In it she carries a red journal and an odd carving made by an old African owned by her father.
The couple's intimate life has hardly begun in Africa when they are beset by illness, treacherous travel, an early pregnancy, a death. Emma opens her heart to Africa, yet at every turn her faith is challenged. In deep night, she turns to the odd carving for comfort and in snatches of calm makes record in her diary. She redoubles her energies, even as she begins to doubt her husband's sanity. Yet she loves him.
When they hire Jacob, a native assistant to guide their caravan, Emma is confronted with her greatest challenge. As Henry's health fails, she is drawn deeper into the African world.
Something is revealing itself to her. But is it a haunting mystery from her past or a new revelation coming toward her out of this mysterious continent?
A compelling story of temptation, courage, faith, and the redemptive quality of love, both human and divine, A Different Sun will transport you to a world where tragedy and triumph lie a heartbeat away.
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From the Author
If you are like me, you sometimes wonder if what a person DOESN'T TELL is more important than what she does tell. I was inspired to write this book when my mother gave me a copy of a diary kept by a white woman who spent three years in West Africa, from 1853-1856. The diary was so sparse that even when tragedy struck, the writer recorded only two to three sentences, just enough for me to know her heart was broken. But she didn't show that. She showed herself plowing ahead with her "mission."
The more research I did and the more I uncovered, the less satisfied I was sticking with the facts. And so my book became a novel. Somewhere along the way, I decided that my heroine would need a writing box to hold her diary. So I made one (or rather, I had her husband make one for her) and I wrote it into the novel. About a year later, I traveled to the hometown of the historical woman who kept the diary. I found the town historian who happened to be the town florist (!). He knew the cemetery of course. He also knew a distant relative of the diarist who had left her unfinished story of the 1850s! The relative invited me into her house. And before I knew what was happening, she said, "I have some things I think you would like to know about. I bet you would like to see the writing box." I nearly fell over! I had reached the point from which "there is no longer any turning back."
I hope you enjoy reading Emma's story as much as I enjoyed writing it!
From the Back Cover
"A beautiful novel, exquisitely written, perfectly complex, true to the past, relevant today, unforgettable." --Philip F. Deaver, author of Silent Retreats, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
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- PublisherKennebec Large Print
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1410462803
- ISBN 13 9781410462800
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages611
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