ABOUT THE BOOK

After meeting Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta, Desire Pierson and other Freedom Riders Attacked by the Klan in Anniston, Alabama, on Mother’s Day, 1961. She loses consciousness or a time——but does she simply faint, or as she begins to believe, did she in fact die and return to life? As she recovers, another questions arises: Is she the reason an elderly black World War veteran kills himself? As the years pass, Desire encounters and then rejects answer to her questions. Treatments fail, and desperation sets in. Then she meets a young minister returning from Egypt with spiritual enlightenment he acquired from an ancient scribe of God’s philosophy. Desiree, now a yoga practitioner, is intrigued. Rev. Alan Duberry claims there are missing links in blacks’ religious practices and that he can demystify the mythology of white supremacy. Her feelings soar, but she soundly contradicts his denunciation of black Christianity as being force-fed. As their relationship deepens in spite of their differences, the world continues to shift around them, leaving the future uncertain. In this novel, a young women recovering from trauma during the civil rights movement faces questions of faith and love as she works to build a new life.

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