Book Description:
A strange and wondrous friendship ignites the fire of love in May Seymour's life.
May Seymour graduated from college with the world at her feet and no idea what to do with it. A mission trip to Rwanda brought her a sense of purpose in loving others. So when the genocide began she chose to remain in the village, which was subsequently slaughtered. Only May survived.
May journeyed to heal on the farm of Claudius Borne, a sweet, innocent old man who understood plants and animals far better than people.
Years later, having not stepped a foot off Claudius' farm, May learns an old college flame, now a death-row inmate, is refusing to appeal his sentence. Can she convince him to grab hold of life once again? Their surprising friendship turns the tables, for the prisoner, Eli Campbell, has a deeper faith from which to draw than she. Eli slowly begins to pull May from her cloistered existence. With the help of Eli, their tiny town, and ultimately a renewal of faith, May comes to life once again.
A strange and wondrous friendship ignites the fire of love in May Seymour's life.
May Seymour graduated from college with the world at her feet and no idea what to do with it. A mission trip to Rwanda brought her a sense of purpose in loving others. So when the genocide began she chose to remain in the village, which was subsequently slaughtered. Only May survived.
May journeyed to heal on the farm of Claudius Borne, a sweet, innocent old man who understood plants and animals far better than people.
Years later, having not stepped a foot off Claudius' farm, May learns an old college flame, now a death-row inmate, is refusing to appeal his sentence. Can she convince him to grab hold of life once again? Their surprising friendship turns the tables, for the prisoner, Eli Campbell, has a deeper faith from which to draw than she. Eli slowly begins to pull May from her cloistered existence. With the help of Eli, their tiny town, and ultimately a renewal of faith, May comes to life once again.
My Review: This is a book that I really haven't decided whether I like or not. It is a gripping tale of May Seymour.
When Claudius Borne finds May drunk along the road and takes he home a story unfolds of how Claudius allows May-May to stay on his farm so that she can learn to come to grips with the things that happened in her life.
May had graduated college and went on a mission trip to Rwanda. While staying in Rwanda the villiage is wiped out by Genocide the only survivor being May. So when she finally makes it back to the states she is physically and emotionally scarred. So when she winds up on Claudius' farm she slowly learns to heal.
Some parts of this book are very hard to read such as the slaughter in Rwanda and I really didn't expect to read about the killing of chickens and turkeys in the story.
Even with the above mentioned issues this is a very well written book and the lessons I took away from it were well worth reading this book. The main themes of this book are forgiveness, grace and love. Although Claudius and May were strangers they form a family bond of sorts which is a great reminder that families aren't a group we are born into but rather they are the people who love us and take care of us when we need them most. I rate this book a solid 4.5.
I was provided a complimentary copy of this book from Booksneeze for an honest review.
