Review: What a beautifully written book...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 21, 2013
Doug Wallace's "Everything Will Be All Right" puts me in mind of "The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio," what with its heart-wrenching depictions of a saintly mother enduring an alcoholic, abusive husband for years upon years -- and the effect that alcoholism had on the family that struggled through poverty was so sad.One feels greatly for children who endured such a pallor of hunger, and when that hunger is satisfied one Christmas morning by the mother's prayers being answered as charity delivers presents and food, we feel discouraged once more at the episode of violence that the father wroughts afterward.But there is so much hope and so much of God throughout this book, especially in the lovely, powerful scene where the book title first arrives like a mantra from heaven given to a young man who needed to hear that everything would, indeed, be all right in the end.It's a journey from his dramatic entrance into this world from the tobacco fields to his heights of success as a lawyer.And the artwork of birds and branches contained therein only add to this gorgeous tale of a man who survived and thrived. Bravo!