![]() ![]() There are beasts, there are terrible tribulations on earth. For Dee and her family, however, this is a script for the future, which is how Troy Hill plays it in the second half of the novel. Scholars have a lot of interesting things to stay about the Biblical Revelation, by the way– mainly that it was never meant to predict the future and is probably about Emperor Nero and the Roman Empire. Matter-of-factly, as experienced by Dee, we see angels, The Lord, and all sorts of beings described in the Book of Revelation. The second half of the book is something else again. Both sets of parents, needless to say, want to throw obstacles in the path of love. Dee, who knows she shouldn't love someone who hasn't accepted Jesus Christ as his Personal Lord and Savior tries to play the field, but keeps turning back to Aazim. ![]() In order to communicate with Dee, Aazim trains himself to write English in Face Book shorthand (I Lv U 4ever). The first half of the book is all teen age struggles with cultural differences in an atmosphere of xenophobic suspicion. Aazim is a nerd with a good body and far more romantic than Dee, who is feisty and brave and stands up for the outsider. The lovers are funny and realistic in how they are separated by their different expectations. The whoosh up to Heaven and the battle with the Antichrist don't stir her family as much as the fact that she falls in love with a Muslim boy. The story is told by a friendly, everyday, super-contemporary girl to whom the Rapture and end times unfold just as she was taught they would. Hill is a playwright, poet, advertising writer and more who has written a quirky young adult novel with one of the funniest opening lines I've ever read: "The thing that surprised Dee the most about the Rapture was the fact that she could still post to Facebook from her iPhone." The direct voice and simple dramatizing of what some fundamentalist Protestants believe is going to happen very soon turns a suburb of the American South into a fantasy world built of wild imagery drawn from the Book of Revelation in the Christian New Testament. I recently wrote an outside-reader evaluation of a memoir about that world for a publisher, and one of my students in an advanced novel class was writing a novel set among Catholics with a rigid practice that was at once exotic and very familiar to me.Īnd now here comes Troy Hill's strange and hilarious A REVELATION. It seems that people are beginning to take a look at the world of the Born Again/ fundamentalist Christians from the inside out. This newsletter, use this permanent link . Praino's short story "Carmen's Blood Song" Good Reading Online Free e-mail subscription to this newsletter. In this Issue: Two Books on Religion New Feature! Almost Heaven White-Water Outfitters and Book Club Announcements and More Meredith Sue Willis's Books for Readers # 156 SeptemMSW Home ![]()
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