Write Now Literary is pleased to be organizing a two-week book tour and book giveaway for Hearts Set Free by Jess Lederman. The book tour will run from January 18-29, 2021.
Book Title:
Hears Set Free
Genre: Literary Fiction/ Historical/Christian
ISBN-10 :
1098511093
ISBN-13 :
978-1098511098
ABOUT THE AUTHOR......
He is
currently at work on a novel that begins in the last days of the Wild West and
ends in Las Vegas in 1955. When Jess is not writing or chasing his young sons
around, he can usually be found at the piano playing Chopin nocturnes for his
wife, Ling.
ABOUT THE BOOK.......
Seven Lives Inexorably Intertwined. Over Eighty-Six Years. That Will Bring a Revelation Beyond What Any of Them Could Imagine.
The Alaska Territory, 1925. When Yura Noongwook’s husband abandons her and her thirteen-year-old son, she vows to win him back and destroy the woman who stole his heart. They embark on an epic cross-country quest that leads them to the Nevada desert, where they meet a man who has turned into the last thing anyone expected him to become …
David Gold. Reno, 1930. A Bible-school dropout known as the Pummelin’ Preacher. His boxing career is fading, just like his faith. But then a former call girl shows up, tells him about the rag-tag congregation she’s part of, how their pastor was murdered. And that the Spirit is moving, and David’s destiny is to lead their tiny flock.
Las Vegas, 2011. Cable TV star Tim Faber is an atheist bent on proving God is only alive in people’s imaginations. But Joan Reed, his producer, is trying to recapture the faith of her youth. And both of them are driven to unravel a mystery surrounding the Big Bang theory, never dreaming the answer will forever change their lives.
To do that, they have to meet with the now 99-year-old Luke Noongwook and David Gold’s grandson, Daniel.
The veil is being pulled back, but none of them are prepared for what they’ll find on the other side.
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EXCERPTS
Chapter One
Luke and Yura: The
Alaska Territory, 1925
My father deserted my
mother and me when I was thirteen years
old. He had become
famous that winter on the Great Race of Mercy, one
of the Athabascan
mushers who brought diphtheria serum to Nome
and saved ten
thousand lives. He’d done the impossible, a blind run-in
the howling darkness,
crossing the open ice of the Norton Sound, the
temperature falling
to sixty below, the sun a distant dream. He was our
hero, our North Star.
And then he was gone.
He left us, of
course, for a woman. A blizzard had hit him at
Unalakleet, a storm
so powerful that it traveled four thousand miles,
till at last it
reached New York and froze the Hudson River. The woman
lived in just that
far-away land, on the wild island of Manhattan, and
her name was Kathleen
Byrne. The Hearst papers had been giving the
Great Race front-page
headlines; Kathleen was a reporter, lean and
hungry, she’d go to
the ends of the earth for a good story, and one day
she got her chance.
No one in my hometown
of Nenana had seen anything like her,
a slender redhead
with emerald eyes, smoking Lucky Strikes and
exhaling expertly
through her nostrils, this coolly confident young
woman with fiery hair.
She wanted details
that would bring the story to life, so Father
brought her to our
home to show off his sled dogs. At least, the ones
who’d survived, for
three he had raised since they were pups had died
on the trail.
Somewhere in the madness of that journey, he’d forgotten
to cover their groins
with rabbit skins, and they’d perished of frostbite
in the unfathomable cold.
I gaped at her stupidly.
“Excuse my son,” said
my mother. “He has no manners.”
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