Author : Len Cooper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692764312
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (643 download)
Book Synopsis The Children of My Knee by : Len Cooper
Download or read book The Children of My Knee written by Len Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Len Cooper's book takes you to a very different Birmingham, where his parents opposed Martin Luther King; to a Catholic seminary that made him miserab≤ to good days as a writer. Readers of The Color of Water will love this book. And Len's family, particularly his mother, will stay in your mind a long time." Donald Graham, Former Publisher and CEO, The Washington Post "The Children of My Knee," is a story that pits the human will and spirit against insurmountable odds. I believe the thread which binds this work together is that it's a story of a lifelong mission, seeking affirmation from my hometown, my father and God, affirmation that in most cases never came. The larger theme of the story takes the reader on a spiritual sojourn which begins in an abusive home in Birmingham and the racist southland of Alabama. This journey subsequently takes the writer to Jerusalem in search of a place that feels like home, a place where he believes he may be truly noticed by God. In a quest to make sense of multiple competing factors in my life, I found myself begging on the streets of D.C and at one point, camping out alone in the middle of the Judean Desert.