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Search - The Rapture of Canaan
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Book Description:
At the Church of Fire and Brimstone and Gods Almighty Baptizing Wind, Grandpa Herman makes the rules for everyone, and everyone obeys, or else. Try as she might, Ninah can't resist her prayer partner, James, and finds herself pregnant. She fears the wrath of Grandpa Herman, the congregation and God Himself. But the events that follow show Ninah that God's ways are more mysterious than even Grandpa Herman understands.
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Amy K. from FERGUSON, MO wrote on 8/30/2007...Deep...maybe too deep for me to fully understand. Nevertheless, I couldn't put the book down!
Wow. I had no idea this was an Oprah's book Club selection when I read it... the cover doesn't say that on my copy.
This book was gripping. I couldn't put it down. Sad. Powerful.
Ninah Huff is the granddaughter of the founder of the Church of Fire and Brimstone and God's Almighty Baptizing Wind, an isolated southern religious community ruled by its patriarch. Ninah is fourteen and full of contradictory feelings. She sees the world only at school, where her long dresses and uncut hair mark her as odd and keep her apart from the other girls. She loves her family, but is never sure that she is truly "holy" enough.
A very moving story of the strength and determination of a girl brought up in extreme religious circumstances that shapes her life forever.