Review: This is the story of young Christy who leaves her home to teach school in the Smokey Mountains. She soon discovers a poverty greater than she has ever known and a group of people that she absolutely falls in love with. There are also two special men in her life that she must choose between-- the doctor or the man of God?
I loved this book. The first time I read it was back in 2008. I am not sure when the book was first published but the author died before I was born so I think it counts as a flashback. :) I fell in love with it and found out there were tv shows and movies. I still haven't been able to watch all the movies but the tv show was fun to get into. The book provided so much more info into the lives and emotions of the people though. This is a delightful clean read for one of those days that you just need a break from your life and delight in someone else's.
Author: Marshall was born in Sept of 1914. By the time she graduated high school the Depression had devastated the US and her dreams for going to college seemed just that, a dream. Somehow her family managed to save up the money to get her through Agnes Scott College in Atlanta. She married Peter Marshall in 1936 and they had their first and only child, Jon, in 1940. "Her most well-known writing, however, is the best-selling novel Christy, about her mother, Leonora Whitaker [Christy], who left her comfortable home in Asheville, North Carolina, to live and teach at the Presbyterian mission in Morgan Branch [Cutter Gap], Tennessee. Catherine Marshall died in 1983."
Rating: **** Four Stars
