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-Gabriella Wheeler
Read my review of Doxology here -- Gabriella
Read my interview with Brian Holers here -- Gabriella
Fathers,
sons and brothers reconnect over tragedy in this blue-collar Southern
tale of love, loss and the healing power of community and family.
Doxology
does for small town Louisiana men what Steel Magnolias did for
small-town Louisiana women, exposing flaws while showcasing their
inner strengths. It is a tale of grandfathers, fathers, sons and
brothers, and recreates family dynamics and memories in a way that
forms a doxology, a song of praise for the male family bond, the
emotional ties men conceal from the world and each other.
About
Doxology
After
a lifetime of abuse and loss--from fights with other boys staged for
his father's entertainment, to the death of his only son-- sixty one
year old Vernon Davidson is angry. He's ready to get back at God, his
paper mill coworkers, and everyone else in his north Louisiana town.
Constantly drunk to numb his pain, the normally cautious Vernon
spirals into recklessness; drinking on the job, facing down a younger
man at work over a parking spot, scandalizing his former fellow
Baptists with displays of his nakedness. Meanwhile Jody Davidson,
Vernon's estranged nephew, struggles to survive a similarly tragic
past by self-imposed exile, inserting himself into a new, seemingly
different family a thousand miles away. The two men are reunited when
Vernon agrees to retrieve Jody for his dying brother so they can say
goodbye-and that's when they each embark on a journey that will
ultimately change their lives.
Brian
Holers’ Doxology examines an impossibly difficult question: how
does a man go about forgiving a God he has grown to despise after the
tragedies and endless disappointments he has faced?
Follow
Vernon and Jody on their road from loss to healing in this deep and
moving book that will challenge and surprise you, as it takes you
deep into the backwaters of rural Louisiana.
The
Reviews Are In
"
An Engaging and Haunting Southern Tale" ~Alle Wells, Southern
Writer
“The
story of fathers and sons, brothers and cousins, had me laughing out
loud one minute and bawling like a baby the next.” ~A. Chambers,
Book Blogger
“The
author shapes his characters with love and respect. In writing of the
Southern world in which these men reside, he avoids the use of
dialect. Instead, he skillfully builds the cadence of life particular
to the rural South with words pictures of that slower lifestyle. His
characters meander through the telling of slow, roundabout tales,
always interrupted with side forays to detail the family connections
of everyone in that story. Friends, as well as strangers, visit
through the open window of dusty pickups, lean on a broom or shovel
throughout a conversation because the work will still be there after
all the local news is exchanged. The reader longs to be sipping the
sweet iced tea in the afternoon heat, to smell the smoke from the
local barbeque pit before diving into a plate of tender ribs, or to
taste the yeasty beer or sharp slide of whiskey across the tongue
after the sun goes down.” ~Suzanne G, Author
“Call
me a feminist, but I have never read anything so `emotional' written
by a man. No offense to all the other male writers, but somewhere
down the line, I find that they are usually unable to tap into
emotions as well as the female authors do. But Brian Holers has
managed to break through that and has captured the true essence of
emotional ties/bonds that make a family.” ~Book Blogger
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Some books are just fun to read. They may be somewhat serious but that doesn't mean they can't be light as well. Sometimes a book is borderline, not quite light and not quite serious. Hunt for Red October was serious; One for the Money is not. Today's book is one in between. I once read a critique of the Wilder/Ford movie Cisco Kid which said the movie couldn't make up its mind if it were a drama or a comedy which offended me. Not just because I liked the movie, although I did, but because life is neither all serious nor all comedy. Now we have all sorts of "dramedies", those movies that are comedies with lots of drama thrown in. TV shows as well. Mike Fontenot's Solution Squares is just the opposite, a drama with comedy thrown in much like NCIS. Written lightly about some very serious goings on, it is indeed interesting.
