They Shall See God

By Athol Dickson

Description:

Little Katy O'Conner is a Christian. Her very best friend Ruth Gold is a Jew. The girls' eyewitness testimony sends a Jewish man to Louisiana's infamous Angola prison for the murder of an evangelist.

Now it's twenty-five years later, the killer is out, and people are dying again in the strangest ways. Will Kate and Ruth be next?

Torn apart in childhood by ancient animosities beyond their understanding, Ruth has become an embittered rabbi and Kate a lonely widow. After cowering for a quarter century behind secret walls of fear and anger, they can no longer elude the past's unfinished business.

To survive, these very different women must reach out to each other in spite of mayhem and mistrust that shrouds one vital truth: Sometimes the most dangerous of enemies crouches just inside the human heart.

Book Takeaway:

It's always a mistake to objectify a person.

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Why the author wrote this book:

After spending five years studying the Torah every Shabbat at a local Reform temple, I wanted to explore the strange love-hate relationship that exists between Jews and Christians in America.