Summer of the Redeemers (1994)

Authors: Carolyn Haines

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“erupted into the world, Alice and I were going to be without her. Alice had been reluctant to lie to her mother, but heavy persuasion had finally won out. We told Mrs. Waltman and Effie that we were going to church at the new King James Baptist Tabernacle in Buzzard’s Roost with a school friend, Sandra Rogers. I’d been brought up in the Sweet Water Methodist Church, but no one in the family except Mama Betts took much pleasure in spending Sunday in church, and Effie and The Judge figured it was...n’t fair to make me and Arly do something they wouldn’t do. At any rate, it was a pleasant surprise for Mama Betts when I said I was going to church—even if it was a Baptist one.
Effie, still upset over my impending trip to Missouri, didn’t ask many questions. It was as if I was already halfway to Missouri and she couldn’t see or hear me real clearly. She was mad, and it was her way of punishing me because I wanted to go to Missouri. In her mind it was a betrayal of some kind. I didn’t fully understand it, but I knew what she was doing and why.MoreLess Read More Read Less