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Revival season : a novel

Title

Revival season : a novel / Monica West.

Author

West, Monica, 1977-

Publication

New York : Simon & Schuster, 2021.
©2021

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Description

292 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"Fifteen-year-old Miriam Horton is the oldest daughter of a Southern Baptist preacher and faith healer. Every summer, the Hortons pack themselves tight in their old minivan and travel through small southern towns for revival season: the time during which Miriam's father holds massive healing services, drawing thousands of people looking to be cured of ailments and disease. This revival season, though, doesn't go as planned, and after one service in which Reverend Horton's healing powers are tested like never before, Miriam witnesses a shocking act of violence behind the revival tent. From that point on, Miriam's belief in her father--and in her faith--begins to waver. When the Hortons return home from the revival circuit, Miriam's confusion only grows as she discovers that she might have the power to heal--even though her father and the church have always made it clear that this power is denied to women. Over the course of the next year, and as a new revival circuit approaches, Miriam must decide between her faith, her family, and her newfound power that might be able to save others, but, if discovered by her father, could destroy Miriam. A story of spiritual awakening and disillusionment in a southern, black, Evangelical community, REVIVAL SEASON is a haunting novel of complicated familial love, a young girl's coming into herself, and the price of being among the community of the faithful"--

Subject

Genre/Form

Domestic fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Fiction.

Call Number

Sc E 22-140

ISBN

9781982133306
1982133309

LCCN

2020040328

OCLC

1201300527

Author

West, Monica, 1977- author.

Title

Revival season : a novel / Monica West.

Publisher

New York : Simon & Schuster, 2021.

Copyright Date

Edition

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Note

Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc E 22-140

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