num_pages: 448
description: Sam Hill always saw the world through different eyes. Born with red pupils he was called Devil Boy or Sam Hell by his classmates; Gods will is what his mother called his ocular albinism. Her words were of little comfort but Sam persevered buoyed by his mothers devout faith his fathers practical wisdom and his two other misfit friends.Sam believed it was God who sent Ernie Cantwell the only African American kid in his class to be the friend he so desperately needed. And that it was Gods idea for Mickie Kennedy to storm into Our Lady of Mercy like a tornado uprooting every rule Sam had been taught about boys and girls.Forty years later Sam a small-town eye doctor is no longer certain anything was by designespecially not the tragedy that caused him to turn his back on his friends his hometown and the life hed always known. Running from the pain eyes closed served little purpose. Now as he looks back on his life Sam embarks on a journey that will take him halfway around the world. This time his eyes are wide openbringing into clear view what changed him defined him and made him so afraid until he can finally see what truly matters.
language: English
title: The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
publisher: Lake Union Publishing