![]() ![]() It is an unforgettable novel about discovering the terrible price of wisdom and the enduring grace of God. Told from Frank’s perspective forty years after that fateful summer, Ordinary Grace is a brilliantly moving account of a boy standing at the door of his young manhood, trying to understand a world that seems to be falling apart around him. Murder.įrank begins the season preoccupied with the concerns of any teenage boy, but when tragedy unexpectedly strikes his family-which includes his Methodist minister father his passionate, artistic mother Juilliard-bound older sister and wise-beyond-his-years kid brother-he finds himself thrust into an adult world full of secrets, lies, adultery, and betrayal, suddenly called upon to demonstrate a maturity and gumption beyond his years. ![]() ![]() But for thirteen-year-old Frank Drum it was a grim summer in which death visited frequently and assumed many forms. It is a stand-alone work, a coming-of-age story that I sense is at least partially biographical, by turns heartwarming and heart-rending, a very spiritual book shot through with metaphors and turns of phrase that demand to be noted, marked and re-read long after the last. It was a time of innocence and hope for a country with a new, young president. ORDINARY GRACE is a bit different, and not merely due to Cork’s absence. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were selling out at the soda counter of Halderson’s Drugstore, and Hot Stuff comic books were a mainstay on every barbershop magazine rack. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word. ![]() A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. ![]()
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