Mark, 8: 22-25, The New English Bible, Oxford, Cambridge, UK, 1970 The man's sight began to come back, and he said, "I see men they look like trees, but they are walking about." Jesus laid his hands on his eyes again he looked hard and now he was cured so that he saw everything clearly. Then he spat on his eyes, laid his hands upon him, and asked whether he could see anything. He took the blind man by the hand and led him away out of the village. There the people brought a blind man to Jesus, and begged him to touch him. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence 2008 Ravi Howard's Novel of Hatred Told by a Man in the Dismal Trade Readers experience the complexities of the American South–the beauty of the landscape mixed with the ugliness of its racial history–as the characters cope with a tragic chapter in the unfolding story of the New South. The story explores the vivid history and landscape of the Gulf Coast community and takes readers down the wooden–bricked streets of turn of the century Mobile with its Spanish architecture and its tree–lined avenues that host the annual Mardi Gras parades. When the family is asked to conduct the services for Michael, Roy Deacon must examine whether a life in the family tradition is where he belongs.
The Deacons have operated a funeral home in the city for over 100 years. It is Paul Deacon who discovers the body, and the experience leaves him forever changed. Based on the true story of the 1981 lynching of Michael Donald in Mobile, Alabama, the novel follows the lives of Paul and Roy Deacon, teenagers and childhood friends of Michael Donald, as they cope with the aftermath of his hanging. LIKE TREES, WALKING examines an old tale in the New South.
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