May Seymour was a gorgeous girl with a bright future lying in front of her when she graduated from college with 4.0. She had the intelligence and she had the looks, but somehow some where she was lost within herself. She did not know what she wanted in life.
During the night of her graduation, she wasted herself and ended up vomiting and passing out at the roadside of a country side nearby to Claudius Borne’s farm. Claudius, a seventy year-old farmer with a kind heart, took her in to the farm and let her take her time off until she was completely sober again. She fell in love with the farm and decided to stay with him for few weeks before she was off to Rwanda, for a mission trip that changed her life forever.
Civilian wars broke out in Rwanda involving two tribes in the country. May had a chance to escape the country but her love towards the villagers prompted her to stay. The ruling and cruel tribe came and wiped off everyone in the village. May survived, after being maliciously abused physically and sexually. After the army left, she survived for another three months in the village, alone with all the dead people around her. Her life was never the same again.
When she was found and brought back to the states, she took her time to heal in Claudius’ farm. She became a hermit and locked herself up in the farm. Claudius was patient and loving that he helped her in any ways to help her to heal, until the day he collapsed and passed away. He willed his farm to the church nearby but with May was allowed to stay in the farm as long as she wanted to. So May started to stay on her own in the farm, keeping the farm running with the help of few kind and friendly people in the church and also the neighborhood.
Eight peaceful years had passed and yet things started to change. The new pastor from the church who owned the farm started to put pressure on her, driving her to start her new life out of the farm. At the same time, an old friend or date of hers, Eli Campbell suffered from PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) after the military service and he killed two people during a robbery in a convenience store. He was sentenced to death. Most of the people thought he should appeal, excluding the family of the victims of course. But Eli did not want to.
While dealing with her own sorrow and wounds, she tried to reach out to Eli and to convince him to grab his life back. During the process, May was healed herself. She found God again and she found life as well. Eli died eventually during the execution, but he was not executed. Miracle happened. May moved on with her new life, transformed and renewed.
The author wrote the story beautifully with plenty of insightful conversations among the characters, and also detailed yet lively descriptions of the surroundings. Because of that, the readers were able to bath in the imagination and as if they were living among the fiction’s characters to feel and experience the main hero and heroin’s emotions and thinking at the point of time. It was an impressive story and it brought food of thoughts, unfailingly in every chapter, to the readers. Even after reading the book, one would close the book with a missing feeling in heart, pondering about the details and lessons learned from the story.
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