Boaz Brown - Softcover

Stimpson, Michelle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1497556864 ISBN 13: 9781497556867

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Synopsis

Right man...wrong color? LaShondra has done the work on herself first. She’s gotten her education and, more importantly, developed a strong relationship with Christ. Now, she’s ready for a man—but not just any man. She wants a Boaz, a godly man...who’s gainfully employed...and it would hurt if he looked good, too. God answers with three out of three, but there’s a twist: her perfect man, Stelson Brown, isn’t African-American. While LaShondra’s parents are happy about her professional success, they’re chomping at the bit for her to get married. Her father (who wouldn’t even let her bring her white friends home from school) and her mother (who’s gets word about the white man through the church folk grapevine) will have more than a few words for her when they find out—if LaShondra ever gets around to telling her family and friends about Stelson. The racial climate at LaShondra’s job isn’t helping the situation. LaShondra suspects that the principal is buffering grades for certain students. Can she keep her integrity while keeping her job as vice principal? Boaz Brown is the first novel of bestselling novelist Michelle Stimpson. In essence, it launched her career as a writer and is still one of her best-loved works. "Sassy...refreshingly forthright...an excellent reading group selection." -Library Journal (Starred Review) "Thought-provoking...offers lessons for all" -Publisher's Weekly "Powerful...stylishly written...delivers hard questions in a tightly wrapped package of complex relationships, power struggles, and heart-melting romance." -Romantic Times Bookclub Magazine (4.5 stars)

About this title

About the Author:

Michelle Stimpson is the national bestselling, award-winning author of more than 25 books and 50 short stories. Visit her online at www.MichelleStimpson.com.

From Publishers Weekly:

Set in Dallas, Stimpson's debut novel effectively uses flashbacks to dramatize the conflicts faced by her deeply spiritual narrator, LaShondra Smith. A successful school vice-principal about to turn 31, LaShondra yearns for Mr. Right. Naturally, this special man has to be not only honorable, compassionate and rich but also Christian and black, like Boaz in the Bible. On career day, LaShondra meets Stelson Brown, the handsome white partner of the Brown-Cooper Engineering firm, and is immediately attracted to him. As her feelings for this Christian Prince Charming grow, LaShondra has to deal with a school administration that questions her ability to cope with diversity issues and, more importantly, a father who disapproves of her dating outside her race. In the sobering denouement, her father reveals a family secret about an incident in Ellerson, Tex., in 1958 that forever crushed his dreams and trust in the white man. Aimed most obviously at African-American women of faith, this thought-provoking tale of anger, prejudice and romance offers important lessons for all.
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About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1497556864
• ISBN 13: 9781497556867
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296