num_pages: 400
description: Also I heard the voice of the Lord saying Whom shall I send and who will go for us? Then said I Here am I; send me. When Emma Davis reads the words of Isaiah 6:8 in her room at a Georgia womens college she understands her true calling: to become a missionary. It is a leap of faith that sweeps her away to Africa in an odyssey of personal discovery tremendous hardship and profound transformation.For the earnest headstrong daughter of a prosperous slave owner living among the Yoruba people is utterly unlike Emmas sheltered childhoodas is her new husband Henry Bowman. Twenty years her senior the mercurial Henry is the object of Emmas mad first love intensifying the sensations of all they see and share together. Each day brings new tragedy and heartbreak and each day Emma somehow finds the hope passion and strength of will to press onward. Through it all Henrys first gift to Emma a simple writing boxwith its red leather-bound diary and space for a few cherished keepsakesbecomes her closest confidant Emmas last connection to a life that seems in this strange new world like a passing memory.A tale of social and spiritual awakening; a dispatch from a difficult era at home and abroad; and a meditation on faith freedom and desire A Different Sun is a captivating fiction debut.
language: English
title: A Different Sun
publisher: Berkley