Two Hearts, One God.? Should Anything Else
Matter?
Zora Nella Hampton Johnson knows exactly where she comes from—and
her daddy won't let her forget. Of course for that privilege he
keeps her in Prada and Kate Spade, Coach and YSL. He chooses her
boyfriend, her car, her address, and ignores her love of painting,
art, and the old ways of her grandaddy's soulful AME church—where
the hymns pleaded, cajoled, and raised the roof. Her daddy may be a
preacher, but some-where among the thousands of church members, the
on-site coffee house, and the JumboTron, Zora lost God. And she
wants Him back.
Nicky Parker, a recent graduate of Berkeley and reformed playboy,
also suffers the trials of being a preacher's kid, and he can't
remember the last time he saw eye-to-eye with his white, racist,
Southern Baptist father. What he does remember—and it will be
forever burned in his brain despite myriad prayers to Jesus—is the
way Zora looked the first time he saw her. Like Nefertiti. Only
better. When they meet at a bible study far from their respective
home churches, the first churlish, sarcastic sparks that fly sizzle
with defensiveness. But God has a special way of feeding the flames
and though of different flocks, these two lost sheep will find Him
and much, much more.
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