Mike is Jewish. Carrie is Gentile. On the picturesque campus of the University of North Carolina, the two graduate students fall in love and all is well until they meet one another's families. Mike and Carrie set out on a journey to prove their love is strong enough to overcome not only the cultural and religious differences of many generations, but the surprising tests life brings as well. But, is it?
Mike's mother is Rachel Liebowitz Kramer, the only child of holocaust survivors. She is determined to keep her family Jewish at all cost. Rachel, too, embarks on a journey to search for historical evidence of the family she never knew. The mystery deepens as surprising pieces of the puzzle come into view.
Marilyn takes the colorful threads of love, family, history, faith, forgiveness and reconciliation and weaves an intriguingly beautiful tapestry that tells a timeless tale. From eastern North Carolina to the narrow streets of Bucharest and Jerusalem, the journeys of two families intertwine in a truly fascinating divine romance.
The long-awaited sequel to The Gentile and the Jew is here! From an exotic honeymoon in Israel on the shores of the Red Sea, Mike and Carrie Kramer return to the States ready to settle down in Chapel Hill, N.C., where Mike plans to complete his master’s in journalism at UNC. Upon arrival in New York, Daniel Silverman, Mike’s former boss whisks the newlyweds away to Manhattan for a twenty-four hour layover they’ll never forget. Events transpire that could dramatically upset the couple’s well-planned future.
No longer content to be players in the background, the beloved characters of The Gentile and the Jew emerge front and center in Going Home. From Rachel and Isaac Kramer’s small family in Wilmington, North Carolina, to the Safron family, Rachel’s newly discovered relatives in Israel, and from Romanian Rabbi Abraham Wasserman to New York’s Becca Brody and Daniel Silverman, their lives rise dramatically to the surface of this fascinating tapestry woven together by a strong underlying thread. Theirs is truly a divine journey home.
Though Sweet Beulah Land is entirely fiction, the characters and events are true to life of rural eastern North Carolina, circa 1900. This was an era when tobacco was king in the small village of Beulah. Folks married, had babies, worked hard and enjoyed a little bit of fun here and there. From the farm of Jeb and Sarah Jane Gresham to the country store of Nate and Laney Gresham, the stories of the citizenry of Beulah are deeply intertwined in a homespun tale of heartache, hope, and humor.
While Sarah Jane Gresham has dreams for her daughter, Hannah, becoming a “practical” nurse, Jeb has dreams of getting his tobacco crops to Kinston so as to feed his household. And while Nate and Laney Gresham are awash in the love that builds a family, Kate Gresham finds herself married off to a young doctor and not too happy about it, either.
Murder, mystery, love, adversity and faith—Sweet Beulah Land has it all. For the reader whose roots grow deep in the rich soil of eastern North Carolina, each page is filled with precious memories of a bygone day. For those who hail from other regions of America the Beautiful, the book offers an open door to visit a unique people who become vibrantly alive in this delightful tale of trial and triumph!
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