Wings of Grace
This novel includes generations of spirituality, mystery, history, and racial conflict. A black woman, Mamie Patterson, and a white woman, Sarah Fleming, grow up together in Asheville, North Carolina, and their lives are forever intertwined. In 1935, each becomes pregnant and gives birth within hours. Sarah is told her baby was stillborn and is sent off to a mental institution. Mamie raises her twins, one a dark male, Willie B. Jr.,^Band one a light female, Memory Grace. For more than 60 years, Sarah holds onto her intuition that her baby did not die. When she meets Johnnie Mae Taylor, a famous author, she confides in her and asks for help in locating her family. Johnnie Mae is in the midst of a book tour, growing concern about her aging mother, and excitement about her wedding to the Reverend George Landis, yet is compelled to help this woman. Even narrowly escaping the World Trade Center disaster on September 11, she is presented with more evidence that will help Sarah. In a series of serendipitous^Bevents in this well-written narrative, Sarah and her family are reunited.Lillian LewisCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved