BlackBelly: Heather Sharfeddin, A SSG Oz Book Review

Heather weaves a story that is both believable and mystical. Her characters are people from the yellow pages of our lives. People that we all have known and encountered at some time or other.

Heather gives you the feeling that people can have hope in themselves and hope in each other, and that even at the worst moment in our lives, there is still value to be found in love, faith and family.

This may be a little dark for the sunday school class, or even the 10th grade accelerated reading group, but it is well worth the read for the rest of us people who have ever asked ourselves the questions, Who are my neighbours? Do I really know them, and how can I know them better?

Enjoy
SSG OZ

Here is an excerp from the Cover Summary of BlackBelly, by Heather Sharfeddin.

Blackbelly is a contemporary western that suspensefully traces the consequences of a crime of bigotry. It is a story of an unjustly accused sheep rancher's struggle to reclaim his life, and that of a woman close to him, from perils imposed by a domineering father and the culture of of a remote Idaho town, gritty but proudly independent Sweetwater.
Chas McPherson, and his father are the shepherds-one of beasts, the other of souls. The hard crusted, hard drinking younger McPherson, a mis-understood loner, raises a breed of sheep known as Blackbellies. The father dying of Parkinson's, is tended by a newly hired nurse with a past, Mattie Holden. The Father had been a fire-and-brimstone pastor whose uncanny ability to detect and then reveal the townspeople's sins kept them in dread of him. When the home of Sweetwater's lone Muslim family is burned to the ground, those past fears and grudges contribute to the town turning against the younger McPherson as the suspected arsonist.....
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