Orchard of hope : a novel / Ann H. Gabhart.

ISBN: 9780739483374
ISBN: 0800731697
ISBN: 9780800731694
Physical Description: 412 pages ; 22 cm
Publisher: Grand Rapids, Mich. : Fleming H. Revell, [2006]
Copyright: &copy;2006

Gabhart, Ann H., 1947- (Author).

Summary:

In 1964 Hollyhill, Kentucky, fourteen years old Jocie Brooke makes friends with the new negro family from Chicago especially the son Noah Herndon nearest her age. However, Noah assumes that Jocie is a fake who thinks she knows black people and so has doubts about the friendship... besides which, he and his family know how the white hierarchy will react to a colored boy hanging with a magnolia.... Meanwhile Jocie s father David, owner and editor of the Hollyhill Barrier and a pastor argues for human dignity and rights. He is seeing someone for the first time since his former wife Adrienne left without a look back taking their older daughter, then thirteen years old, Tabitha with her. However, David shocks Noah and the townsfolk when he offers the lad a job at his newspaper. Even more stunning he invites the Herndons to attend the church where he serves as pastor as he believes God would want him to but his flock is not as tolerant.