Zion
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Zion: A Novel by Dayne ShermanIncludes Readers Edition for Book Groups and Author Q & AFrom the critically-acclaimed author of Welcome to the Fallen Paradise comes a gothic treatment of the American South: a hard-charging depiction of religion, family, friendship, deception, and evil. Zion is a mystery set in the rural South, the story of a war fought over the killing of hardwoods in Baxter Parish, Louisiana. The tale begins in 1964 and ends a decade later, but the Hardin family, faithful members of Little Zion Methodist Church, will carry the scars for life.Praise for Dayne Sherman and his fiction:David Armand, author of Harlow, says: Dayne Shermans new novel is a taut literary thriller told in the vein of Cormac McCarthys No Country for Old Men and Larry Browns Joe. Like all enduring literature, this book deals with the big issues: the Old Testament themes of justice, morality, revenge, fatherhood, and ultimately of how one finds hope and salvation in a fallen world. Zion is a book you will not want to put down, and it will make the ten years youve waited since Shermans first novel seem worth every second.In Zion, his second novel, Dayne Sherman has proven he is one of the best writers of Southern fiction today. From his knowledge of guns to carpentry to nature Sherman misses nothing in the world of Baxter, Louisiana, a town filled with a cast of characters Ill long remember. Its good versus evil in an intense and riveting story where long withheld secrets tear at the very fabric of family ties. This is the story of Tom Hardin, a man with a conflicted heart whose lamentations strike the deepest veins of the heart. Its one of those rare tales that readers will continue to ponder long after the last page is turned.--Bev Marshall, author of Hot Fudge Sundae Blues & Right as RainIn Zion we watch a small community and a family struggle to adapt to the dramatic social transformation of the 60s and 70s as the tentacles of change inched deeper in
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