Rye Hill - Robin Cannon

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Résumé :
The spirituals always signified that something important was going on...

Biographie:
Robin Cannon received her BA and MS degrees from Fordham University in New York City and her Sixth Year Degree in Education Administration from Southern CT State University in New Haven, CT. She has been a schoolteacher for thirty-five years. Robin lives with her husband, Bob, daughters, Haley and Molly, and son, Colin. Three previous books written by the author entitled Tilly Fig, Rye Hill, and Fireflies at Nightfall--all published by Goose River Press--were displayed at the 2017 Book Expo in New York City. Austin Macauley published the fourth book by the author in 2018 entitled The Vanity of Robbers. Robin Cannon has been a guest speaker at Book Club meetings as well as the West Haven Public Library. She has attended book signings at various bookstores in Connecticut, including Bank Square Books in Mystic, Burgundy Books in Westbrook, R.J. Julia in Middletown, Warehouse Books in Clinton, and Barnes and Noble Bookstores in Westport, North Haven, and Milford. Additionally, Robin has interviewed with the New Haven Register, the West Haven Voice, and Hartford Books Examiner about her books....

Sommaire:
something extraordinary that needed God's special attention. A young boy seeks friendship in a forbidden place where he learns valuable lessons in acceptance, forgiveness, and the indomitable human spirit. Young Skeet LeMay and his parents are migrant workers who move from one place to the next in search of work. After they settle on a large farm where Skeet's father has been hired to pick peaches in the orchard, the young boy witnesses something horrific and perverse, changing his life forever. Caught between a bitter father who is despic-able to the core and a gentle, loving mother who has ac-quiesced to her husband's abusive ways, Skeet must di-rect his own fate as he embarks on a journey to Rye Hill, following the one thing his father never had...a moral compass. I was off to find that colored boy. I didn't know what I would say to him or what he would say back, but I was so inclined to make his acquaintance that no one, not even Pa, could stop me now....