That’s my reasoning behind dedicating most of an entire weekend volunteering at the Read Local Book Festival. I gained a lifelong love of old children’s books (and new children’s books, as my children’s hundreds of books attest) from my time in the back rooms of the library. And because they also took care of removing the old books, I got to page through the vanilla scented browned paged discards, occasionally spiriting a volume away from its doom.
I got to read all the fresh, spines uncracked books right as they came in. “My grandmother worked in our local public library, and the ladies in Acquisition and the Book Mobile took me under their wings. First up is Summer Kinard author of The Salvation of Jeffrey Lapin.įrom her blog “ Writing Like a Mother,” we get a glimpse into Summer’s love of books. During the next couple of weeks, I will be highlighting these edgy Christian fiction authors and their work. Fans of The Screwtape Letters and The Sayings of the Desert Fathers will resonate with this story of redemption and love rooted in ancient Christian teachings.I had the opportunity to meet several interesting writers this weekend at the First Annual Read Local Book Festival in Durham North Carolina. Strengthened by new habits of faith, Jeffrey finds a new direction, purpose, and maybe even love. With compassion and coffee, confession and cake, Jeff’s new Orthodox family teaches him to accept the grace given him to live into true eternal life. Parted forever from the demon that tormented him, Jeffrey has to learn to live as a Christian, free from the demon but not his own tendencies to mess up. But Jeffrey’s so focused on dying that he overlooks the first part of baptism: the exorcism. Her touch shows him the solution to his problem: he will convert to Orthodoxy and say goodbye to the world when he gets baptized. A failed suicide attempt puts him in touch with Maddy, an Orthodox Christian police officer whose helping hand burns Jeffrey’s skin.
After 125 years of demon possession, Jeffrey Lapin wants to end his life of torment.
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