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Early one morning in 1850, as Penny McGinty leans over a cookstove in a sweltering Philadelphia kitchen, a knock form a slender fist upon the back door interrupts the hum of insects hovering in the yard's overgrown garden. At first, neither Penney nor the wealthy family for whom she cooks will recognize the knock for anything more than it is. She opens the door and lets the traveler inside. Thus begins Night Shade, a story of awakening, sacrifice, and struggle as the conflict for the nation's soul looms.
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from Night Shade Above the boy, hidden somewhere amongst the leaves, a bird sent forth a long, last note into the coming night. The cry broke against the balm of slumber and the boy sat up from where he had dozed in the forked arms of an old butternut tree. He waited, hoping the bird might call again, but the only sound that came was the one he’d been fleeing for the past three days. He untied the rope that had lashed him to the branch, dropped soundlessly to the ground, and darted in the direction he knew to be north. The bird, too, flew off, but the pounding of the boy’s heart left no room to imagine how a meadowlark might soar up through a placid sky... |
Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. Rumi