God’s Acres
by
David Gerard
Author: David Gerard was born David Gerard
Jurkiewicz in 1952 in St. Joseph, Missouri. He attended parochial schools there
and, as a youth, worked in his father's shoe repair business. He earned a
Master's degree in literature from the University of Tulsa in 1992. He has
worked for the Muskogee Phoenix in Muskogee, Oklahoma, since 1995 where he
spent ten years as a reporter and copy editor and the last five years as
opinion editor. He is a freelance writer, has written one other novel, Judge
Not, and has published short stories in literary magazines. Gerard and his wife
Audrey have three adult children. He enjoys gardening, hiking, bicycling, and bird
watching. Title: God’s Acres
Genre: Inspirational
Book: In God's Acres,
six-year-old Bud tells the story, set in the 1950s, of his family's relocation
from St. Joseph, Missouri to a small farm just outside of town. The twelve-acre
homestead represents the idyllic life for Bud's mother, the story's central
figure—a woman driven by unwavering religious beliefs and a rigid work
ethic—but it turns out to be the source of much heartache. With an endearing
earnestness and bits of laugh-out-loud humor, Bud intertwines signal
developments in the lives of his family members with key world events—all of
which seem to be of equal importance from his perspective as a child. At the
start of each chapter, an adult Bud speaks from the present, closing the circle
on a complex tale of family relationships. God’s
Acres is available at Amazon.com.
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