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The Rapture of Canaan

Sheri Reynolds

Paperback | Pages: 320 pages

Rating: 3.82 | 33165 Users | 821 Reviews

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Original Title:	The Rapture of Canaan
ISBN:	0425162443 (ISBN13: 9780425162446)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.sherireynolds.com/rapture-of-canaan.html

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Oprah Book Club® Selection, April 1997: Members of the Church of Fire and Brimstone and God's Almighty Baptizing Wind spend their days and nights serving the Lord and waiting for the Rapture--that moment just before the Second Coming of Christ when the saved will be lifted bodily to heaven and the damned will be left behind to face the thousand years of tribulation on earth. The tribulation, according to Grandpa Herman, founder of Fire and Brimstone, will be an ugly time: "He said that we'd run out of food. That big bugs would chase us around and sting us with their tails . . . He said we'd turn on the faucet in the bathroom and find only blood running out . . . He said evil multitudes would come unto us and cut off our limbs, and that we wouldn't die . . . And then he'd say, 'But you don't have to be left behind. You can go straight to Heaven with all of God's special children if you'll only open your hearts to Jesus . . .'"

Such talk of damnation weighs heavy on the mind of Ninah Huff, the 15-year-old narrator of Sheri Reynolds's second novel, The Rapture of Canaan. To distract her from sinful thoughts about her prayer partner James, Ninah puts pecan shells in her shoes and nettles in her bed. But concentrating on the Passion of Jesus cannot, in the end, deter Ninah and James from their passion for each other, and the consequences prove both tragic and transforming for the entire community.

The Rapture of Canaan is a book about miracles, and in writing it, Reynolds has performed something of a miracle herself. Although the church's beliefs and practices may seem extreme (sleeping in an open grave, mortifying the flesh with barbed wire), its members are complex and profoundly sympathetic as they wrestle with the contradictions of Fire and Brimstone's theology, the temptations of the outside world, and the frailties of the human heart.

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Title	:	The Rapture of Canaan
Author	:	Sheri Reynolds
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	by Berkley Books (first published 1995)
Categories	:	Fiction. Religion

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Ratings: 3.82 From 33165 Users | 821 Reviews

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This was a really interesting book to read, and I loved that it was through the eyes of a young person, who was being forced to be something she wasn't while all the while defying it all, and becoming her own person anyway. Truly a very good book, I would recommend it to anyone looking for a good, simple, but also very deep read.

I started this book with just one expectation, that I wasn't going to like it. I just finished a coming of age story set in the south that started off so promising and ended cliché and disappointing. In the beginning of this book it seemed like I'd be in for the same experience. Then about 20 to 30% into the book I found myself very engaged. The young protagonist has a very real voice, her grandmother and grandfather, the other leading characters of the book are also very interesting and well

A fast read and (mostly) an engrossing one, although there are some melodramatic parts (weaving a cross? barbed wire? whut?). I was a bit sorry when Ninah fell in love, though; I could tell the rest of the story would be centred around that, and I found the beginning and its portrayal of the cult more interesting.

I just finished reading this book for the second time. I think I loved it more than the first. The only books I tend to give 5 stars to are books that make me want to reinvent my life when they are over, live a better life, and be a better person. This really isn't that kind of book but it is greatness through and through.There were times while reading this book that I just needed to put it down. I knew if I kept reading I would get too sad. I was right there with Ninah, going through her

Amazing book in the General feel of classic southern gothic literature. Powerful writing. Quote When Ive used up all my rugs and lies, rope and hair, fabric and love, when Im out of twine and my loom is broken and theres still a story in me, thats when I unknot and begin the unraveling. My rugs are never finished. I use the same materials to make them over and over again, featuring something new each time and hearing a different tale. But sometimes they speak the most wisely when they are heaps

This was pretty good. Again, I wasn't sure if it was supposed to be "YA fiction" or not, so I gave it the benefit of the doubt. It's probably not a great grown-up book. Too heavily symbolic and ultimately unsatisfying for that, but it should be OK young adult.