As the Sycamore Grows
Jennie Miller Helderman
ISBN 10: 098277320X ISBN 13: 9780982773208
Published by Summers Bridgewater Pr Inc, 2010
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<DIV>Imagine sleeping with the enemy in the hills of Tennessee when the enemy totes a Bible and packs a .38. Mike shoved and slapped but his primary tools were isolation and economic abuse, until he discovered the power of the Lord. As the Sycamore Grows is a nonfiction narrative about ending the legacy of abuse. Ginger McNeil was brought up to pray and obey, but she escaped the padlocked cabin in the woods where she lived off the land with no electricity or telephone. Today she's a court advocate in the domestic court system. Her husband Mike admits the abuse, holds no remorse, and would do it all again. God made women to serve, he says. It's their job. Both Ginger and Mike speak, as do family, friends, ex-spouses, and others. Threading through the story is loss: the alienation of families, a spiritual void from betrayal by their church, and the death of the son Ginger had abandoned.</DIV>
About the Author: <DIV>Jennie Helderman is an Alabama-born-and-bred writer transplanted to Atlanta in her gray-haired years. She broke a glass ceiling at age ten as the first girl to page in the Alabama legislature, the same year she wrote and produced her first play. Since then she's co-authored two books, chaired the editorial committee for a 120,000-circulation quarterly, and written magazine articles and short stories. Her shortest story was nominated for the Pushcart Prize for 2007. She's taught school in rural Alabama, done social work, led community projects, and promoted women's issues. For six years she chaired the board that oversees Alabama's DHR, the state's largest agency and the one that looks into all abuse. She's climbed Mt. Vesuvius, worked at Pompeii, hiked across Spain, and rafted the Grand Canyon.</DIV>
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Title: As the Sycamore Grows
Publisher: Summers Bridgewater Pr Inc
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good
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