How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South
By: Esau McCaulley
4.62
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times contributing opinion writer and award-winning author of Reading While Black…
Want to Read $ 14.99"There is no Black faith that doesn't wrestle with the problem of evil. My reply to these questions is: We who have suffered must have some say in how that suffering is interpreted. We won the right, through our scars, to discern the significance of what we endured."-Esau McCaulley, How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South
"There is no Black faith that doesn't wrestle with the problem of evil. My reply to these questions is: We who have suffered must have some say in how that suffering is interpreted. We won the right, through our scars, to discern the significance of what we endured."-Esau McCaulley, How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South
"There is no Black faith that doesn't wrestle with the problem of evil. My reply to these questions is: We who have suffered must have some say in how that suffering is interpreted. We won the right, through our scars, to discern the significance of what we endured."-Esau McCaulley, How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South
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