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Salvation: A Novel Based on a True Story

✍ Scribed by Avery Caswell

Book ID: 110716926
Publisher: TouchPoint Press
Year: 2021
Tongue: English
Weight: 199 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781952816550
ASIN: B095Z5T7WY

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✦ Synopsis

No one ever talks about what happened ...

Summer 1971, Del Munro, a single mother of four, is struggling to make ends meet when Mother Franklin, a traveling evangelist, offers to take her daughters to the beach in Savannah.

For nine-year-old Willie June and seven-year-old Glory, restless at the end of a long, hot summer in Charlotte, it's a dream come true. To their beleaguered mother, it's a much-needed reprieve.

But what seemed like a blessing soon turns into a nightmare when the girls are pressed into service by the morbidly obese Mother Franklin whose needs are as outsized as her ambitions.

When the girls fail to return, Del, evasive about the details of her arrangement with Mother Franklin, panics. People begin to wonder if instead of sending her daughters on vacation, she sold them to the evangelist.

Based on a true story, Salvation is an evocative and unforgettable saga about stolen innocence that explores the tragic mistakes made by desperate people and the false prophets who exploit their vulnerabilities.

"...a riveting and deeply moving story... a stunning debut by an important talent."
—Abigail DeWitt, author ofNews of Our Loved Ones

"A haunting, disturbing journey through an America of misplaced hope and overvalued faith, and of surprising redemption. With gentle humor and a profound appreciation for the marginalized lives of her characters, Avery Caswell illuminates the America that's alongside us, and which many of us rarely acknowledge."
—Arthur J. Magida, author ofCode Name Madeleine

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