Saving Jacob

By Joy Bassetti-Kruger

Jacob, who has just come out of prison for the second time in less than two years, has made up his mind that he wants to change his life and also return to college to complete his teaching diploma. He also wants to eventually teach in a school in the small village deep inside The Valley of A Thousand Hills, where he went to school, as he wants to give something back to the community that he let down so badly when he was sent to prison for stealing.
The monk whose job it is to help people who have come to such a decision, has decided to help Jacob. He has taken a liking to Jacob and he also believes he is sincere. This is why he causes something to happen on Jacob's train journey back home, that will lead him towards the place where he lives.
Within the story, reality shifts just ever so slightly to make the telling of the tale more interesting and also to allow the monk to do whatever he has to do to help Jacob on his way. So open your mind as you allow the monk to lead you into his world, as well as Jacob's world, to a place where the two worlds collide and mingle without any difficulty, or any sense that something might be amiss.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Joy Bassetti-Kruger
• Release date: Jun 20, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311747600

Joy Bassetti-Kruger

I began my library career at the Jhb. public library, and while I worked there part time, I also completed my Library Exams with the SALA. Then I was headhunted by Ekom, as I'd specialized in information retrieval and they needed someone to obtain current information on various projects for their engineers. Later I moved to Control Data, where I learned all about storing such information on their large computers. All the while, I also taught ballet, modern and Spanish, dancing in my spare time, as I'd trained as a dance teacher while still at school. After I married I ran two dancing studios for adults, where I also began to teach yoga and passive exercises. In my youth I danced for PACT for a while, but as I was still studying at the time, -I decided to give this up, although I continued to dance in various productions at the Civic Theater in Johannesburg. -Showboat, The Merry Widow, Guys and Dolls, to name a few. As I'd also joined two writing circles previously, I'd been writing all along, - mostly short stories. But then an opportunity came up for me to include English Literature and Creative Writing in my studies, so this is when my writing career really took off, even though I never published anything until recently, when I first uploaded stories on a local SA site,then Kindle, Kobo and now finally that I've cracked the 'meat-gringer," I've loaded some new stories on to Smashwords, which I think is a really wonderful site for writers, as it forces us to confront all the issues and make certain that everything is correct..

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