Zacharias’ Christian Bend trilogy (Mother of Rain, Burdy, and Christian Bend) explores a group of characters who live with and understand the power of place as well as the strains that a larger world exerts upon the smaller places of our lives. Learn to accept the drenching for what it is and try to find some beauty in it” (64). Burdy says of the inevitable tragedies and pressures of life, “Put your head down and keep walking. Later, in the second book of Zacharias’s Appalachian trilogy, Burdy, the Melungeon character whose name is also the title of the book, repeats this thought in a slightly different tone and under a different set of related circumstances. “Some of life’s greatest treasures are born of great sorrow,” asserts Maizee, mother of Rain, in Karen Spears Zacharias’s book Mother of Rain, a Weatherford Award winner and the 2018 West Virginia State Common Read.
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