Small Town Roads is kind, gentle, poetic, but grippingly bittersweet in the meeting and meshing of the times and values of two distinctly different - but so much the same - women in a Small American town.
When Rachel is caught up in an unexpected act of violence while out on patrol, her whole life changes, as does her look at her fu.
As heart-breaking as that is to see, Evelyn believes that God brought the two together to find renewed purposes in His Will, and the two begin an unlikely friendship that surpasses age, knowledge, and life experiences.
Evelyn befriends her young neighbor, finding out she has endured a lot of grief for one so young, that sorrow taking her on a directionless path instead of one lit by the Holy Spirit.
Sometimes God has other plans for us.
She had thought she wanted a carefree city life, not a job as a rookie cop in a Town whose only restaurant has a life-sized plastic cow on the roof.
Rachel has just left the city with a Criminal Justice degree.
That\'s why she is intrigued to see what her new neighbor, a young woman named Rachel Raines, will add to their Small town.
Evelyn Ahlgren, a widow, and retired schoolteacher enjoys the comforts of her little home and her surrounding neighborhood.
Johnson, accurately depicts the feeling of Small Town life, where neighbors know each others\' names and become friends for a lifetime.
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Small Town Roads is a loving story about an old, slow place where the terrible loneliness of grief eases because ordinary people decide to be community."- Katie Andraski Author of The River Caught Sunlight Small Town Roads, the latest novel by award-winning Author L.
Johnson has written a lyrical, meditative story that acknowledges the dangers and comforts of our world.
B. "In the tradition of Kent Haruf\'s bestselling Plainsong, L.
Moore Award-winning novelist and journalist, author of The Breaking of Ezra Riley and other novels.
Johnson is a writer to watch for tomorrow, but she is also someone to enjoy today."- John L.
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Small Town Roads is kind, gentle, poetic, but grippingly bittersweet in the meeting and meshing of the times and values of two distinctly different - but so much the same - women in a Small American town
