BREAKING AWAY - Nembhard, Judith

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Résumé :
A Christian college campus has a culture of its own. Breaking Away takes us to a small Pennsylvania town onto the campus of New Lebanon College, where the culture is beginning to change drastically. Dr. Lola McIntyre, a brilliant young professor, committed to her faith, arrives back on campus for the opening convocation to begin the new school year only to find that the college president, Harold Drinkwater, and his academic dean, Spencer Burns, have stepped up their drive toward making the college prominent in the academic world at the expense of its spiritual life. Sensing that the erosion of religion on the campus has started in earnest, Lola joins some of her colleagues in an effort to keep spirituality at the center of campus life. The struggle creates upheavals that threaten the life of the institution. The crises mount, but the president ignores them in his single-minded push toward academic prominence. Change becomes his operative word. In the midst of resisting the unwanted change and trying to set the spiritual life of the college back on course, Lola McIntyre experiences an unexpected, life-changing encounter. Change comes to New Lebanon College, and irresistible change comes to Dr. Lola McIntyre.

Biographie:
Judith Nembhard now lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S.A., having taken a long route from her birthplace in rural Jamaica with its lush, tropical landscape that always makes its way into her writing. In the U.S. she attended college and university in Massachusetts and Maryland, starting out as a biology major but gravitated to her first love, English, earning a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. She writes Christian fiction and is the author of Myra's Calling, Breaking Away, and Dark Days on the Fairest Isle, which was a finalist in the Southern Christian Writers Conference (S.C.W.C.) Notable Book Award (2019). Her memoir Mr. Michael: Journeying with My Special Son has won praise from parents of autistic children and those who work with them.