Spider in a tree
Subtitle: a novel
By: Susan Stinson
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9781618730695; 9781618730701
Subjects: Fiction; Preaching; History
Description: In his famous sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," Jonathan Edwards compared a person dangling a spider over a hearth to God holding a sinner over the fires of hell. Here, spiders and insects preach back. No voice drowns out all others: Leah, a young West African woman enslaved in the Edwards household; Edwards's young cousins Joseph and Elisha, whose father kills himself in fear for his soul; and Sarah, Edwards's wife, who is visited by ecstasy. Ordinary grace, human failings, and extraordinary convictions combine in unexpected ways to animate this New England tale.--