|
BOOK REVIEW: River Rising
|
||
|
Click cover to purchase book
|
by: Laura V. Hilton Dancing Word Reviewer
Title: River Rising Author: Athol Dickson Publisher: Bethany House ISBN: 0-7642-0162-X Genre: Inspirational/Historical/Fiction Pilotville, Louisiana, in 1927 is an isolated outpost on the Mississippi River, which is accessible only by boat and divided by racism. Reverend Hale Poser has come looking for his roots. While he’s in town he takes a job at the local Negro hospital as a janitor. When a black woman goes into labor at the hospital, the doctor says there is nothing to do but perform a c-section. But Hale lays his hands on the woman’s belly and the baby turns, so the woman is able to deliver her baby girl normally. But that night, the baby vanishes. The parents and the town are frantic. After all, this has happened in the past and the babies have never shown up again. Hale determines that it won’t happen with this baby, and he spends long hours in the swamp searching. In the misty swamp beyond the cypress and the tupelo lies a lingering evil veiled by Spanish moss. For over two hundred years it has slept in seclusion. But will Hale be the man God uses to stop this evil and to pull the town together? I wasn’t sure how interesting River Rising would be, but I was instantly hooked on page one, and when I misplaced the book while traveling I was frantic to find it, and hoped it was in the car somewhere. I was very glad when I located it because I had to find out what happened next. Hale is a wonderful character--loving, kind, and giving, and he goes out of his way to try to draw the town together. Even though Hale is warned not to look for the missing Negro baby, he does so anyway and finds something even more priceless and yet still horrific in return. Readers won’t want to miss this page-turning book of Southern fiction. River Rising is a true winner. Even the cover is a bit spooky looking. I highly recommend River Rising for a story that will continue long after the final pages are turned. $17.99. 221 pages.
|
|
