Janson Sanders, part Cherokee, part poor-but-proud white, is a man intent on revenging his father's death and taking back the land stolen from him by a wealthy planter. In the process, he meets and falls in love with the daughter of another rich landowner, a dangerous man who refuses to accept that his daughter would love below her station. Set against the backdrop of the small farm and sharecropping life in the South in the final days of King Cotton, Behold, This Dreamer is a story of love, hope, poverty, and heartbreak, in which the protagonist is pulled in opposite directions toward his love and his dream.
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Janson Sanders, part Cherokee, part poor-but-proud white is intent on revenging his father's death and taking back the land stolen from him by a wealthy planter. Parentless and alone, Janson sets out, hopping a train with only a few biscuits and some cold pieces of chicken to his name. Thus begins a journey across the South to earn enough money to return home and reclaim his birthright. He eventually settles on rich landowner William Whitley's land, working alongside the poverty-stricken sharecroppers during the day and bootlegging illegal liquor at night, hoarding what little money he earns toward the redemption of his own land. Along the way, he falls in love--despite himself--with Whitley's daughter. Separated by class and culture, the two young lovers struggle with their own differences while trying to keep their relationship secret from her temperamental, overbearing, and dangerous father. Set against the backdrop of rural life in the South during the twenties, Behold, This Dreamer is a story of hope and heartbreak, in which Janson Sanders is pulled one way by his love of the land and another way by his love of a woman.
Charlotte Miller was born in Roanoke, Alabama, in 1959, and has never lived outside the South. She began writing Behold, This Dreamer while a student at Auburn University, where she received a degree in business administration. Today, she works as a certified public accountant to pay the bills, and writes late into the night because she must. She is presently working on her third novel, which will complete the trilogy begun with Behold, This Dreamer. One of her short stories, "An Alabama Christmas", was included in the bestselling 1999 regional collection, Ordinary & Sacred As Blood: Alabama Women Speak. She is a member of the Alabama Writers Forum and Creative Writers of Montgomery, and is a member of and the historian for the Alabama Writers' Conclave. She has a son, Justin, age eleven.
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