This is the saga of love and commitment told through the eyes of soul people who see beyond the physical. It is a journey into the lives of ordinary folks in the late 1940s in rural northern Mississippi. It was a changing time for the town blacksmith Luther, his daughter Rosie, and his colored helper Paul. It was a fire that bonded Luther and Paul. It was an ice storm that took them back to the haunting memories. It was the roses that reminded them of the beauty and love that live on. The graying lacy mist of the morning surrounded the mourners with love as they lowered Lily's casket into the black pit. That mystic realm beyond conscious understanding surrounded and comforted Paul's soul. Standing beneath the old apple tree on that foggy Mississippi morning at the break of day, Paul felt strength in his weakness that told him he would survive.
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Beyond black and white, love and hate........,
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The past is recalled and the present celebrated in Gaskin-Smith's (Fire, Ice and Roses: A Mississippi Story). An astounding, well written, first novel, the story details the lives of a group of ordinary people in Northern Mississippi in the 1940's. The depth of the story undeniably takes the reader in search of ones own emotions and reactions to racism, hatred, and bigotry. Gaskin-Smith searches into the soul of the African-American hero, worker, scholar, Paul looking for meaning and understanding of him as a man and a friend. The writer's treatment of Paul's ties to his white ancestry and his bondage by his black skin is remarkable. As Paul struggles to find his own identity as a man, and human being; Rosie, the daughter of a blacksmith, searches to love the soul of Paul and form a bond that crosses racial barriers in an era in American history where such bonds were unspoken of. Fire, Ice, and Roses: A Mississippi story is about so much more than black and white and love and hate. Rather, it is a revelation of the depth of human relationships. Its about what happens when one dares to look into another's soul to find truth, dignity and love. Gaskin-Smith emerges as a delightful narrator as she ushers her readers into the depths of the relationships of these characters as no writer before her has ever done.
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It was a warm Mississippi day, and Rosie, a little stringy-haired eight-year-old, was at her favorite place, at the old grist mill, as it was crushing corn into cornmeal. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hardware room, old blacksmith shop, sawdust pile, yer mother Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Doctor Jackson, Miss Sarah, Miss Claudia, Ward Sherman, Gene Paul, Miss Rosie, Auntie Claire Belle, Grandpa Toby, Julia Ann, Sue Beth, Carl Sherman, New Orleans, Ruth Ann, Glory Beth, Joyce Sue, Uncle Seth, Hickory Springs, Leta Mae, Autumn Damask, Camp Shelby, Christmas Eve, Doctor Dodson, Lily Paul, Old Spice New!
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It was a warm Mississippi day, and Rosie, a little stringy-haired eight-year-old, was at her favorite place, at the old grist mill, as it was crushing corn into cornmeal. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hardware room, old blacksmith shop, sawdust pile, yer mother Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Doctor Jackson, Miss Sarah, Miss Claudia, Ward Sherman, Gene Paul, Miss Rosie, Auntie Claire Belle, Grandpa Toby, Julia Ann, Sue Beth, Carl Sherman, New Orleans, Ruth Ann, Glory Beth, Joyce Sue, Uncle Seth, Hickory Springs, Leta Mae, Autumn Damask, Camp Shelby, Christmas Eve, Doctor Dodson, Lily Paul, Old Spice New!
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