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Revised and newly packaged edition of the author's first novel. Follows a cynical sociologist whose assignment is to research the inner workings of a southern church, and the extraordinary woman who changed his life and led him from despair to redemption.
Perry Warren is sent by his agent to South Carolina to research small-town Southerners. He expects to write an expose on how backward these people are, but then he meets the Rafferty family. Eldeen, the family matriarch, is an expansive woman whose belief is as big as her heart--and her family shows Perry what faith really is.
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Bach Wolfgang
reviewed The Suncatchers on June 23, 2018
The Suncatchers
Jamie Langston Turner, unlike most authors of CF, knows how to draw complex and interesting characters. Perry Warren is an ethnographer sent to observe (and disparage) a fundamentalist Christian community in South Carolina. He doesn't really know why his wife has asked for a divorce. As the story unfolds, he discovers that Christians aren't the lunatics he had supposed and finds healing for some of his many hurts. Turner does a wonderful job showing how weird church must be for first-timers. After the congregations sings about how Christ "saved a wretch like me," and died for "such a worm as I," I laughed out loud at Perry's observation that Christians do not have a very high opinion of themselves.
But to be honest, I did not love this book. Eldeen, the Christian dingbat, seemed like a caricature, and the preachiness was laid on pretty thick. I'm glad I read JLT's Winterbirds first, which is a much better novel.
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