By Vanessa Del Fabbro
Steeple Hill Books
www.SteepleHill.com
233 Broadway
New York, NY 10279
This is a great Christian novel from a new author. It is about a young reporter in South Africa who, after being carjacked, discovers the "other" South Africa, far away from her protected, whites-only neighborhood. Along the way she finds love, acceptance, and deep friendship with those she would never have met otherwise.
The book is set in 1998, four years after the first democratic elections in South Africa that swept the African National Congress into power. The country is in deep unrest. Racial hatred surfaces from all sides, often resulting in violence. Supposedly, everyone in the country can now legally live where they want, work where they want, say what they want, marry whomever they want, and exercise the right to vote. But old hatreds still keep the country virtually segregated.
I would highly recommend this book to readers in their teens and above. This is a Christian book that gives the message of Jesus' love and salvation in subtle tones rather than throwing it in the face of the reader. A non-Christian reader could read and enjoy the story and maybe have a seed planted or watered in regards to Christian faith.
Product review by Nancy Wagner, The Old Schoolhouse Magazine, LLC, March 2007
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