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Davis, Charles: Angel's Rest
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Growing up in Virginia's Allegheny Mountains, eleven-year-oldCharlie York lives at the foot of an endless peak called Angel's Rest,a place his momma told him angels rested before coming downto help folks. In 1967 his town was a poor boy's paradise…untila shotgun blast killed Charlie's father and put his mother on trialfor murder.
For mysterious reasons, his mother entrusts his care to an oldblack man named Lacy Albert Coe. Lacy tells simple stories aboutthe good and the bad that compose life's sweetest music. But whena reclusive Korean War veteran is linked to his father's death andLacy is victimized by hate crimes, Charlie hears only silence. It'snot until Charlie embarks on a dangerous midnight journey pittinghim against his darkest fears that he finally hears his own songplaying out.
For mysterious reasons, his mother entrusts his care to an oldblack man named Lacy Albert Coe. Lacy tells simple stories aboutthe good and the bad that compose life's sweetest music. But whena reclusive Korean War veteran is linked to his father's death andLacy is victimized by hate crimes, Charlie hears only silence. It'snot until Charlie embarks on a dangerous midnight journey pittinghim against his darkest fears that he finally hears his own songplaying out.
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