James Chantal
James Chantal - None But The Righteous A Novel - Paperback
James Chantal - None But The Righteous A Novel - Paperback
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Description: In seventeenth - century Peru St. Martin de Porres was torn from his body after death. His bones were pillaged as relics and his spirit was said to inhabit those bones. Four centuries later amid the havoc of Hurricane Katrina nineteen - year - old Ham escapes New Orleans with his only valued possession: a pendant handed down from his foster mother Miss Pearl. There's something about the pendant that has always gripped him and the curiosity of it has grown into a kind of comfort. When Ham finally embarks on a fraught journey back home he seeks the answer to a question he cannot face: Is Miss Pearl still alive? Ham travels from Atlanta to rural Alabama and from one young woman to another as he evades the devastation that awaits him in New Orleans. Catching sight of a freedom he's never known he must reclaim his body and mind from the spirit who watches over him guides him and seizes possession of him.
Title: None But The Righteous A Novel
Author(s): James Chantal
Publisher: Counterpoint
Barcode: 9781640095625
Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Date: 1/17/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: In seventeenth - century Peru St. Martin de Porres was torn from his body after death. His bones were pillaged as relics and his spirit was said to inhabit those bones. Four centuries later amid the havoc of Hurricane Katrina nineteen - year - old Ham escapes New Orleans with his only valued possession: a pendant handed down from his foster mother Miss Pearl. There's something about the pendant that has always gripped him and the curiosity of it has grown into a kind of comfort. When Ham finally embarks on a fraught journey back home he seeks the answer to a question he cannot face: Is Miss Pearl still alive? Ham travels from Atlanta to rural Alabama and from one young woman to another as he evades the devastation that awaits him in New Orleans. Catching sight of a freedom he's never known he must reclaim his body and mind from the spirit who watches over him guides him and seizes possession of him.
Title: None But The Righteous A Novel
Author(s): James Chantal
Publisher: Counterpoint
Barcode: 9781640095625
Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Date: 1/17/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
