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Title: Living Water by Obery Hendricks ISBN: 0-06-000087-2 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.77 (13 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A good read
Comment: This is a good read. Every now and them, overtones of a Toni Morrison novel appeared (the first wedding night; the other woman; Big Mama (Baby Suggs, etc.). A different take for the story of the woman at the well, it does, however humanize her. Maryam was on her way to normal growth until the menfolk took to telling her father that she was too "gibora" for her own good. Her father literally started the stunting of Maryam's psyche. Her grandmother, fearing that she would be manless, reinforced the exhortation of Maryam's father which confused Maryam. By the time the poor girl met gentleman #5, she had been ground into the ground.
The characters were pretty well developed. I still have some confusion about husband #4.
I could parallel some of the drama in the book to every day life in this millenium for some women, to some black men, to some areas of the black community.
I especially loved the sensitivity and ability of Mr. Hendricks to get into the head of a woman. The women in his own life have to have very positive impact upon him.
Rating: 5
Summary: Deeply moving and empowering - Nourishment for the Soul!
Comment: Obery Hendricks' first novel celebrates womanhood, the resilience of the human spirit, and the healing power of love and forgiveness.
Living Water expands on the biblical story (John 4:7-29) of the life of the "woman at the well," an unnamed Samaritan woman with a questionable background (five ex-husbands and a sixth common-law husband) who encounters Jesus at the local well. Hendricks effectively weaves this biblical story and context with African American mores and experience into an examination of the effects of oppression and self-hatred on relationships and community.
The reader is immediately confronted with questions of her innocence or guilt in the first pages of the book that describe a dying man's last moments.
Hendricks uses this woman's sometimes painful and troubling story to explore how a male-dominated society sanctioned its oppression of women. When her loving grandmother, Ma Tee, dies, she loses her primary source of love, wisdom, and refuge. She must learn how to navigate and survive the customs and rules designed to control her with little assistance except from a few doting community elders. Local custom forces her marriage to the highest bidder and places her at the mercy of the first of five very difficult husbands. Circumstances and cultural dictates force her to move from husband to husband, with each man taking away a bit of her humanity, leaving her emotionally broken and nearly destroyed with little recourse except to fight back. She ultimately finds the strength that enables her to heal, forgive, and embrace a man and community with true love and spirit.
Rating: 5
Summary: AView of God From a Woman's Perspective
Comment: This is a touching story of a young womans journey from her joy of life to near-death despair around to a greater joy of life.
It truly celebrates the strength of womanhood. The descriptions were vivid and the personalities so real, I felt I knew all of the characters. Because all women have experienced Maryam's life in some form, this story will touch your heart in an unbelievable way. I loved this book!
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Title: Mercy, Mercy Me by Ronn Elmore ISBN: 0446529842 Publisher: Warner Books/Walk Worthy Press Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Second Sunday: A Novel by Michele Andrea Bowen ISBN: 0446530336 Publisher: Warner Books/Walk Worthy Press Pub. Date: 09 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: A Love' Like No Otha' by Stephanie Perry Moore ISBN: 0446679674 Publisher: Warner Books/Walk Worthy Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The New Testament: A Critical Introduction by Edwin D. Freed ISBN: 0534521398 Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Pub. Date: 08 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $57.95 |
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Title: The Gospel and Letters of John (Interpreting Biblical Texts) by R. Alan Culpepper, Rex Matthews ISBN: 0687008514 Publisher: Abingdon Press Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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