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Sabbath Creek
By Judson Mitcham
$22.95
University of Georgia Press |
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Novel tells of boy’s personal journey
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Creek is the story of Lewis Pope, a 14-year-old boy thrust
into an adult world of heartache and brokenness. The novel is written
by Judson Mitcham, an ajdunct faculty member of UGA’s creative
writing program and an associate professor of psychology at Fort
Valley State University.
When Lewis’s beautiful but distant mother takes him on an
aimless journey through south Georgia, the cerebral and sensitive
boy is forced to confront latent fears—scars left from the
emotional abuse of an alcoholic father and the lack of comfort from
a preoccupied mother—that crowd his interior world.
At the heart of the journey, and the novel itself, is Truman Stroud,
the cantankerous owner of the crumbling Sabbath Creek Motor Court,
where Lewis and his mother are stranded. Lewis’s budding friendship
with the 93-year-old black man is his only reprieve from the mysteries
that haunt him. Despite his prickly personality and the considerable
burden of his own personal tragedies, Stroud becomes the boy’s
best hope for a father figure as he teaches Lewis the secrets of
baseball and the secrets of life.
Sabbath Creek travels from
the ruined landscape of south Georgia and takes readers all the
way through the ruined landscape of a broken heart.
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