Where was God, on May 15, 1974?

It was 1974...the South.
She was 12; he was 16.
She was black, poor, the daughter of a Baptist minister.
He was white, rich, the son of privilege.
What happened…changed her life forever.
His was unaffected, until the passing of 14 years,
a vicious murder, a callous display of arrogance and power, an unexpected visitor...
and A Family Gathering.

Warning:

This is a novel.   But, for some, it will read like the story of their life. The ‘head-shaking’ events, in the ‘tragedy to triumph‘ life of Deborah Yvonne Davis, span twenty-five years. They transcend race, gender, and social status.

On a beautiful Day in May of 1974, in rural Reedville, Arkansas, Deborah Davis lived the last day of her first life. When the sun rose that morning, she was a happy, precocious, bright-eyed, twelve year-old school girl...in love with life. She was an innocent, gregarious, virgin woman-child on the cusp of teenage-hood. Gram d’lena would have been proud. Then...

Perhaps the brilliant, inspiring, but biting realism of ‘A Family Gathering’ will help you, or someone you may know, exorcise unresolved issues—personal demons—that may surface. In the end, perhaps you, like Deborah, will make the same declarations she makes in the poem...
"I Weep No More."

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