In Her First Life |
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| Author:
| Cartwright, Gene |
| ISBN: | 979-8-8263-1253-7 |
| Publication Date: | May 2022 |
| Publisher: | Independently Published
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $24.75 |
Book Description:
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Where Was God on May 15, 1974? It was 1974, one year after Roe V Wade became law. She was 12, the daughter of a poor rural Arkansas Baptist preacher, and pregnant by the son of the state's wealthiest family when her first life ended.
In Honor of my late friend:
Ms. Cicely Tyson I am blessed and honored to have known you, shared years of friendship, and am still a beneficiary of your grace and constant encouragement. Of all the things you said,...
More DescriptionWhere Was God on May 15, 1974? It was 1974, one year after Roe V Wade became law. She was 12, the daughter of a poor rural Arkansas Baptist preacher, and pregnant by the son of the state's wealthiest family when her first life ended.
In Honor of my late friend:
Ms. Cicely Tyson I am blessed and honored to have known you, shared years of friendship, and am still a beneficiary of your grace and constant encouragement. Of all the things you said, this was most awe-inspiring:
"I have not been so moved by a story, since reading Alex's [Haley] book [Roots].
When the film is made, I'm laying claim to the role of Aunt Rose."--Cicely Tyson
While time and fate have rendered that but a lasting and resounding expression of love for this story, it remains in my heart, for always. I will always see Aunt Rose as you.
In Her First Life Where Was God on May 15, 1974? This question may strike you as sacrilegious but you were not there on May 15, 1974. Only one other person was there when twelve-year-old Deborah Yvonne Davis lived the last day of her first life.On that sweltering but beautiful 104-degree day in Reedville, Arkansas, Deborah Yvonne Davis--a poor, rural, Arkansas Baptist preacher's second of three daughters--saw her first life end during a walk home from school down dusty Crispus Attucks Road. She had no one else to turn to, save God Almighty. No one answered.
When the pregnant 12-year-old daughter of a black southern preacher fingers the son of the state's wealthiest family, she's exiled to Chicago relatives, defiantly returns 14-years later targeted for murder by that family--clinging to their Confederate heritage.