Christy

Christy

by Catherine Marshall
Publisher: Avon Books
Mass market paperback, 558 pages
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In the year 1912, nineteen-year-old Christy Huddleston left home to teach school in the Smoky Mountains. There she came to know and love the wild mountain people with their fierce pride, their dark superstitions, their terrible poverty, their yearning for beauty and truth. Christy found her faith severely challenged in these primitive surroundings; and, confronted with two young men of unique strengths and needs, she found her own growing yearnings challenged by love and her heart torn between true love and unwavering devotion.

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HappyHomemaker of Oregon, 4/20/2011
A well written book, but I have a few qualms with it.
First, there is a disturbing scene when a wedding happens and we're made to know that the whole village gets in on the wedding night. Awkward.
Second, Ms. Marshall has strange theology about heaven, probably Catholic. The main character gets really sick and has strange visions of the hereafter.
It was not an engrossing book, but I made it through because I'd seen the TV series and kept expecting it to get better. It got stranger, but that's about all.
There is some positive talk about God, but the preacher is a less-than-stellar character. The doctor is anti-God for a while, and then repents in the end.