Then Like The Blind Man: Orbie\'s Story - Freddie Owens
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101 Lei
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Freddie Owens
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...Then Like The Blind Man: ORBIE\'S STORY grabs you from the very first page and carries you along, breathless and tense, until the very last, very satisfying sentence. --- The San Francisco Book Review ---At nine, Orbie seems to live his life along a precipice. He is burdened with an overabundance of difficult choices which would be beyond the capacities of most boys his age-but Orbie is about to discover that he\'s no ordinary boy. In the debut novel from artist and poet Freddie Owens, nothing is ever precisely what it seems: prejudice is not innate, the dead aren\'t really dead, and those in positions of power cannot be trusted.Orbie finds himself deposited at his grandparent\'s home in Kentucky one summer, his stepfather, Victor, having had a change of heart about including him on a family prospecting trip to Florida. Except heart doesn\'t seem, to Orbie, quite the right word to apply to his stepfather, whose tempestuous temper took him from the widowed family\'s salvation to its most dangerous element in one outburst flat.With no end to his stay in sight, Orbie finds himself settling into routines all but unthinkable weeks before. He becomes fast friends with the Kingdom Boys, who he\'d have happily kept himself segregated from back home in Detroit, though he now finds that skin color is not the best indicator of trustworthiness. He forms a strong bond with Willis, the stunningly talented, physically disabled black boy connected to his grandparents via their mysterious friend Moses, who may call down the rain.Then Like the Blind Man is an electrifying porthole to the South of the \'50s, where, though inane prejudice may have dominated, kindness and justice also had a place. Orbie\'s sharecropping grandparents, by defying convention with unnerving grace, become founts of colloquial wisdom whose appeal is impossible to resist, and the Orbie they nurture-the best version of a boy who may otherwise have been lost-is someone the reader comes to love. Michelle Anne Schingler ForeWord ReviewsABNA Quarter FinalistReceived IRDiscovery Award for Best in Literary FictionFinalist for Kindle Book Review\'s Literary Fiction AwardReceived Kirkus Review\'s STAR for exceptional MeritFeatured in Kirkus Review\'s Trade MagazineHonorable Mention: Writer\'s Digest Self-Published Book AwardsRetailers, Libraries and Educators can get the book through Ingram WholesaleNow available in Bookstores Nationwide!An Amazon Bestseller!Scroll Up To Look Inside;Down To Read Reviews
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...Then Like The Blind Man: ORBIE\'S STORY grabs you from the very first page and carries you along, breathless and tense, until the very last, very satisfying sentence. --- The San Francisco Book Review ---At nine, Orbie seems to live his life along a precipice. He is burdened with an overabundance of difficult choices which would be beyond the capacities of most boys his age-but Orbie is about to discover that he\'s no ordinary boy. In the debut novel from artist and poet Freddie Owens, nothing is ever precisely what it seems: prejudice is not innate, the dead aren\'t really dead, and those in positions of power cannot be trusted.Orbie finds himself deposited at his grandparent\'s home in Kentucky one summer, his stepfather, Victor, having had a change of heart about including him on a family prospecting trip to Florida. Except heart doesn\'t seem, to Orbie, quite the right word to apply to his stepfather, whose tempestuous temper took him from the widowed family\'s salvation to its most dangerous element in one outburst flat.With no end to his stay in sight, Orbie finds himself settling into routines all but unthinkable weeks before. He becomes fast friends with the Kingdom Boys, who he\'d have happily kept himself segregated from back home in Detroit, though he now finds that skin color is not the best indicator of trustworthiness. He forms a strong bond with Willis, the stunningly talented, physically disabled black boy connected to his grandparents via their mysterious friend Moses, who may call down the rain.Then Like the Blind Man is an electrifying porthole to the South of the \'50s, where, though inane prejudice may have dominated, kindness and justice also had a place. Orbie\'s sharecropping grandparents, by defying convention with unnerving grace, become founts of colloquial wisdom whose appeal is impossible to resist, and the Orbie they nurture-the best version of a boy who may otherwise have been lost-is someone the reader comes to love. Michelle Anne Schingler ForeWord ReviewsABNA Quarter FinalistReceived IRDiscovery Award for Best in Literary FictionFinalist for Kindle Book Review\'s Literary Fiction AwardReceived Kirkus Review\'s STAR for exceptional MeritFeatured in Kirkus Review\'s Trade MagazineHonorable Mention: Writer\'s Digest Self-Published Book AwardsRetailers, Libraries and Educators can get the book through Ingram WholesaleNow available in Bookstores Nationwide!An Amazon Bestseller!Scroll Up To Look Inside;Down To Read Reviews
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