Ally Green is a flight attendant who has traveled everywhere, but must return home to bury her father in South Carolina. With that comes seeing her former best friend, Vesey Washington who lives across Molasses Creek - and one of the reasons she ran off in the first place. Vesey is the opposite of Ally, as he has never left their hometown. Ally is surprised to find a message from her father asking her to quit running from her past.
Across the world, Sunila Kunari is trying to escape her life of slavery in a rock quarry is Nepal as a sculptor. She finds a mysterious sketchbook which makes her wonder if there's more to her story than she's ever been told, and she decides to follow the truth to freedom, wherever it might lead her.
Three different people, all entwined together at the end. (I won't say how, you'll have to read it to find out!) Reading the back of the book, I had assumed Ally to be much younger, but when I started reading the book, I realized that she was much older - in her 60's. I felt a little confused.
In fact, confused kind of summed it up at times. I wasn't sure if it was just the way the book was written (it jumps from one character's perspective to another each chapter), or how the characters came out at times, but I ended up dragging myself through this book. I think it's geared more towards a different reader than me. Sunila's story was more interesting to me - I would have liked to have read the entire book from her perspective, rather than Ally/Vesey. One more thing... while the publisher of the book is known for it's Christian Fiction, this book definitely wasn't the usual offering - there's really not a lot of religion in this book.
At the end of the book is a reading group guide, with discussion questions.
Beyond Molasses Creek by Nicole Seitz is a softcover fiction paperback book published by Thomas Nelson. It is 312 pages long. The suggested cover price is $15.99, but Amazon has it available for $11.38 as of this posting. It is also available in large print, as well as an e-book for the Kindle and other e-readers.
I receive a copy of this book in order to read it and share my thoughts on it. All opinions are my own, and not that of the author(s) or publisher.
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