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Annie's Angel
Annie's Angel
Annie's Angel
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Uptown Chicago in November, 1963 is a brutal place for the James Allen McCrees of Letcher County, Kentucky. After migrating from the depleted coal fields in search of a better life, father, mother and three children have struggled for two years to make ends meet in a run-down area known derisively as Hillbilly Land, finding solace only in the songs of their Southern mountain heritage.

Now, however, as James Allens illness worsens, his wife, Mavis June, must take more and more on herself if the family is to survive.

These are the desperate circumstances in which 14-year-old Annie Mae McCree is forced to grow up and to complete her journey from girlhood to womanhood.

When her mother passes on to her a folk belief in a guardian angel, Annie dares to hope that she and her family will be under his protection. However, one shattering personal tragedy after another fractures that innocent faith and forces her on a painful spiritual quest of her own.

Along the way, she learns much about who she is, experiences the power of first love, and finds out a thing or two about angels -- most importantly, that they often arent who or what you expect them to be, and most of the time, they rarely look like angels at all.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherXlibris US
Release dateSep 19, 2000
ISBN9781462830435
Annie's Angel
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Jim Lawrence

Jim Lawrence lives in the North Carolina mountains with has partner Barbara and a precocious Cairn Terrier. He spent several years in Los Angeles working as a writer/director before going into higher education. He has taught screenwriting, video production and nonlinear video editing at the university level, and in retirement he now teaches courses in the UNCA College for Seniors. He and Barbara have made a number of trips to Scotland. He studied Scottish-Gaelic for six years but confesses that the language “finally got the better of him.” 

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