ADAM'S NEEDLE eBook Beth Lyon Barnett
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Decades ago the Ku Klux Klan placed a large cross on an Ozark cliff known as Adam's Needle. When the Klan leaves, no one thinks to takes the cross down. A Jewish couple, Sarah and George Klein, buy their dream farm nearby, but fail to notice the cross until it's too late. Sarah gets a niggling feeling, but George calms her fears by reminding her that the close town of Pecan Grove is a nice Christian community filled with good, kind people. Little does he know that an unscrupulous preacher has arrived, or that he and Sarah's very lives may depend on the cleverness of an abused neighbor child.
ADAM'S NEEDLE eBook Beth Lyon Barnett
Will grows up in a shack tucked away outside of the town of Pecan Grove in the Ozarks. His father is an abusive alcoholic who causes Will to quit talking when he is five years old, and his mother has been beaten down by abuse, ailments, and life. Will’s rescuer is his part Native-American granny who instills in him a sense of right and wrong and inner strength that allows him to survive.Some of the town leaders, members of the local fundamentalist church, and several uneducated hotheads on neighboring farms are connected with white supremacist organizations. The towering white cross on Adam’s Needle was placed there by the Ku Klux Klan. Incidents of teenage pregnancy and the drug culture are growing among the poverty-stricken families.
A young Jewish couple, scientists from K.U. dedicated to improving agriculture and restoring wildlife in the area, buy a neighboring farm. A gay couple moves to town to run the florist shop. Then, the church’s pastor retires and is replaced by a phony preacher bent on making his reputation by stirring up trouble with his xenophobic interpretations of Bible passages that appeal to the poor farmers and townsfolk ready to blame their situations on something or someone. Predictable trouble.
Mass hysteria can be caused by unscrupulous, power-hungry leaders anywhere. This book is both an engrossing story unique to Will’s Ozark community and also a universal phenomenon. It’s both timely and ancient. Compare it to Winter’s Bone but with a political edge.
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ADAM'S NEEDLE eBook Beth Lyon Barnett Reviews
Great read!
Although the author and I show the same last name, we are not related.
I would recommend this book to 8th graders though high school.
This book speaks to fear, negative thoughts and ignorance. Gripping story.
Friend loaned me this book and I loved it! Good book - good friend!!!
This is the second of Beth Barnett's books. I was not disappointed, it was a great read. She handles her characters expertly and you feel you know them. Very informative about how people and towns behave out of ignorance. It opened my eyes about how situations can escalate out of control.
I loved Jazz Town but I couldn't put Adam's Needle down! I grew up in a small town in the Ozarks and this book hit the nail on the head! When my sister and go back to visit friends we are surprised all over again by the things we see. Many in the Ozarks were left behind somewhere in the 30's. Congratulations on a great book and best of luck in the North Street Book Prize competition.
An engrossing novel by local Kansas City author, Beth Lyon Barnett, about a young boy growing up in a rural farm in Missouri and learning how to survive harrowing family situations. This book shows how simmering biases can be fueled to result in hate crimes. I read this during a politically charged election year, and following a horrible act of terror in Orlando where 49 people were killed, and the Brexit vote in the UK, events which highlight how easy it is to tip the scales in favor of acting on people's fears against those who do not look like them. That tension is evident in this story and propels the plot to a climactic ending.
Will grows up in a shack tucked away outside of the town of Pecan Grove in the Ozarks. His father is an abusive alcoholic who causes Will to quit talking when he is five years old, and his mother has been beaten down by abuse, ailments, and life. Will’s rescuer is his part Native-American granny who instills in him a sense of right and wrong and inner strength that allows him to survive.
Some of the town leaders, members of the local fundamentalist church, and several uneducated hotheads on neighboring farms are connected with white supremacist organizations. The towering white cross on Adam’s Needle was placed there by the Ku Klux Klan. Incidents of teenage pregnancy and the drug culture are growing among the poverty-stricken families.
A young Jewish couple, scientists from K.U. dedicated to improving agriculture and restoring wildlife in the area, buy a neighboring farm. A gay couple moves to town to run the florist shop. Then, the church’s pastor retires and is replaced by a phony preacher bent on making his reputation by stirring up trouble with his xenophobic interpretations of Bible passages that appeal to the poor farmers and townsfolk ready to blame their situations on something or someone. Predictable trouble.
Mass hysteria can be caused by unscrupulous, power-hungry leaders anywhere. This book is both an engrossing story unique to Will’s Ozark community and also a universal phenomenon. It’s both timely and ancient. Compare it to Winter’s Bone but with a political edge.
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