Free (nook/Kindle/Kobo) When Mockingbirds Sing [Southern Spiritual Literary Novel]

[ATDrake]

When Mockingbirds Sing by Billy Coffey is his standalone contemporary Southern literary drama novel with strong supernatural and spiritual elements, centred around a rural small town where a young girl begins to make paintings that appear to come true, causing a divide amongst the townfolk, free courtesy of publisher HarperCollins' dedicated Christian imprint Thomas Nelson.

Although this is from a Christian sub-imprint, this apparently does not incorporate specific Christian faith elements (there's actually a very prominent and reasonably thoughtful 1-star review to that effect expressing the reader's disappointment, who was not expecting a preachy "message", but just wanted a few mentions of Jesus and stuff as might otherwise be expected), but instead goes for a much vaguer general belief in the supernatural and paranormal that more definitely denominationally religious Gentle Readers may find lacking.

And the blurb likens it to some prominent more secular-oriented supernatural/Southern literary fiction writers. YMMV.

Currently free @ B&N (also UK), Amazon & Kobo (neither available to Canadians), iTunes & Google Play (both available to Canadians). Price-drop-check linkage for ChristianBook, where these things usually eventually show up free.

And this has been the (late!) selected 3rd (non-repeat) free ebook thread of the day.

Pretty much by default, but it also seems like a bit of nice variety to get a "Christian" book with a more general sort of spiritual faith exploration of the supernatural in it, in contrast to all the ones we've received with considerably more specifically evangelical miraculous content in them.

Enjoy!

Description
Billy Coffey has been compared to both Flannery O'Connor and Shirley Jackson. Journey with him to Mattingly, VA, and discover what marks the boundary between a miracle from God and the imagination of a child.

Leah is a child from Away, isolated from her peers because of her stutter. But then she begins painting scenes that are epic in scope, brilliant in detail, and suffused with rich, prophetic imagery. When the event foreshadowed in the first painting dramatically comes true, the town of Mattingly takes notice.

Leah attributes her ability to foretell the future to an invisible friend she calls the Rainbow Man. Some of the townsfolk are enchanted with her. Others fear her. But there is one thing they all agree on—there is no such thing as the Rainbow Man.

Her father, the town psychologist, is falling apart over his inability to heal his daughter . . . or fix his marriage. And the town minister is unraveled by the notion that a mere child with no formal training may be hearing from God more clearly than he does.

While the town bickers over what to do with this strange child, the content of Leah’s paintings grows darker. Still, Leah insists that the Rainbow Man’s heart is pure. But then a dramatic and tragic turn of events leaves the town reeling and places everyone’s lives in danger. Now the people of Mattingly face a single choice:

Will they cling to what they know . . . or embrace the things Leah believes in that cannot be seen?

[TrevorViking]

Kobo
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[ATDrake]

Oops. Fixed, thanks!

[Dr. Drib]

Got it.

Thank you!