Pamela King Cable

Cable has written a page turner for sure. When I first saw the book at our store I wasn't sure I wanted to read it, even though I read the synopsis several times. Growing up in a rural community in the South (near the area where the book is set), I was all too familiar with fire and brimstone preaching. A lot of that type of preaching is often directed at the GLBT community. Because of that, I probably would not have read the book had I not met the author at a City Lights Bookstore reading. In her presentation she spoke about the strength of her main character, Andie, and that the true message of her book is about unconditional love. The book has something for every reader.

There are some graphic scenes of violence. That is the saddest part that the violence was done in the name of God. Through Andie's struggles however, we see that the real message of God is love and that love does indeed conquer.

You can hear her reading at City Lights Bookstore here: http://more30758.podomatic.com/… (mehr)

Michael Brown. Miriam Carey. Trayvon Martin. Tanisha Anderson. We all know their names, and every time their names are spoken, we hear the ringing alarms that tell us that racism is as alive and well today as ever in American history. Now this same dark history is brought into the light in a Christian novel called The Sanctum by Pamela King Cable.

Thrown into the care of her alcoholic grandfather, Neeley McPherson is raised by his elderly farmhand named Gideon, a black man she grows to love. In the winter of 1959, she is only thirteen but has already experienced true horrors. When Gideon is accused of stealing a watch and using a whites-only restroom, she stands defiantly against everything wrong in the world and breaks him out of jail.

Catfish Cole, Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon of the Carolinas, pursues them across the Blue Ridge Mountains. After ice sends Gideon’s truck down a steep slope, they hike through a blizzard and arrive at a wolf sanctuary where Neeley crosses the bridge between the real and the supernatural.
There she discovers her grandfather’s deception, confronts the Klan, finds her faith in God, and uncovers the shocking secrets of the family who befriends her. The act of providing sanctuary leads to another tragedy but second chances and the defeat of prejudice grant Neeley’s most passionate desire.

In prose that touches on the shadowy noir of Gothic Southern fiction, this tale of suffering carries readers through the darkness and into the light of hope…hope for the characters and hope for America. Blending the awareness of Harper Lee’s [b:To Kill a Mockingbird|2657|To Kill a Mockingbird|Harper Lee|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1361975680s/2657.jpg|3275794] with the social astuteness of Kathryn Stockett’s [b:The Help|4667024|The Help|Kathryn Stockett|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1346100365s/4667024.jpg|4717423] and a faith in the transformational power of love found in Sue Monk Kidd’s [b:The Secret Life of Bees|37435|The Secret Life of Bees|Sue Monk Kidd|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1473454532s/37435.jpg|3275013], this timeless coming-of-age novel is a powerful commentary on what we once were…and what we can all become.

5 stars!

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