Christy

A condensation of the book by Catherine Marshall. Illustrated by Howard Sanden.

For many years, Catherine Marshall, the distinguished author of A Man Called Peter and other inspirational books, listened to her mother's stories of her experiences as a young mission teacher in eastern Tennessee. Mrs. Marshall went with her parents - her father had been a Presbyterian minister in the same settlement- to the wild, beautiful mountains and saw the humor, courage and saltiness of
the mountain people for herself, Gradually, the need to tell her mother's story in the form of a novel took hold. Christy -a moving, authentic drama of mountain life- is the inspiring result. Around the character of Christy, a spirited young girl in search of her own identity and a deeper religious faith, Catherine Marshall has brought to life the whole Appalachian world with its feuds, its fun, its humanity, and its proud independence. In the end, young Christy finds a new understanding of God through suffering- and she finds, too, her lifetime love.