I am currently reading Beyond The Shadows by Robin Lee
Hatcher.
Beyond The Shadows
Robin Lee Hatcher
Christian Fiction
319 pages
The prolific, award-winning Hatcher offers this
message-driven story of the impact of alcoholism on a
Christian family in the 1950s, with mixed results.
After 15 months of marriage, Deborah Haskin's beloved
husband, Andy, dies in a freak farming accident, and
she's left with a 40-acre farm and a broken heart.
Then Gideon Clermont, a handsome Korean War veteran
buddy of Andy's, shows up to help her. Deborah, the
first-person narrator, finds solace for her grief in a
swift romance, but disaster is lurking. Although she
discovers that Gideon has covered up a drinking
problem that threatens to destroy their newfound
happiness, the co-dependent Deborah reassures herself,
"He's fine. We're all fine." Many short first-person
testimonies by other characters work surprisingly well
to round out the story. However, it is rife with
scripture quoting, Deborah talking to God in italics,
God talking back to Deborah ("Do you think I was
surprised by what you did, beloved?") and Christian
lingo that will resonate with a hardcore evangelical
audience but lose most others. The second half of the
novel becomes more didactic about alcoholism, and
Deborah's life is used as a device to demonstrate the
novel's view of how Christian women should respond to
an alcoholic husband-as the book makes clear, God
hates divorce.
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