Congratulations to our GRAND PRIZE WINNER!!
2015 LYRA AWARD
K.M. Weiland
Book Description
Ten-year-old Iris Somerset encounters a living God when her mother dies unexpectedly. She and her two brothers face a troubling future. Their father’s instability undermines the family, yet God is there—speaking and moving.
Her budding faith carries her through frightful uncertainty, until a reckless choice one fine summer day changes everything.
As her world unravels, Iris and her older brother travel to post-Amin Uganda with their uncle who runs an orphanage. In a land of despondency, Iris’ heart begins to mend as she confronts her worst fears and experiences the wonder of God through the eyes of war orphans.
“I am not old, but I’m no longer a child. Sometimes I’m brave enough to think about those days—days of suffocating fear and weeks when sadness had no end, and I lived with many questions tapping on my brain like a relentless woodpecker. Each new bend in the road of twists and turns thrust me into the unknown like a wild mustang ride—snorting, rearing, and trampling my simple world. And when the quiet came at night, my heart seemed as cold as the bottom of the great lake.
Yet Nana’s gentle hand on my arm, or the look in Skeets’ kind eyes, well, they kept something muffin alive in me. They made me believe a greater thing could happen…”
–Iris Somerset
Review by Moriah McKee
I loved reading these true "God Stories" woven into Iris' fictional life. A child's perspective on life's big problems reminds me its ok to question God, even ok to be mad at God. We just can't stay there forever. A redemptive story, and an inspiration to every day keep listening for the still small voice.
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