Can he let go of the southern bigotry and cruelty he encountered and witnessed to embrace forgiveness and love her? How can she be with him, retain her whiteness and encompass his rejected world of blackness, totally non-existent to her? This book could be the story of any number of black Americans in this country, and this is the story one of them. It is a story that tells of the hardship, the bigotry, the abuse, the mistreatment, and the power of love and forgiveness in his life, living as a black man in this country. It examines the union and struggles of two people from two different ethnic groups, renouncing their cultural backgrounds and challenging the status quo that governed and influenced the blind society that they lived in. It highlights the power of the agape type love that they shared and how, in spite of the hatred and wrong doings toward them, could transcend and defy the unjust practices and principles that they faced each and every day of their lives. A love so zealous that made room for all the errant behavior they encountered living together while black in America.
About the Author: Marshall Campbell - My name is Marshall Campbell. I was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and raised in Detroit Michigan. I started to draw and write at an early age. Upon entering the ninth grade in high school, I took journalism for two years. During that time I wrote a column for the school newspaper. I also joined the journalism club. We wrote short stories, poetry, and in addition; discussed and critiqued each other's work. After graduation from high school, I enlisted in the army as a paratrooper, where I spent three years, and received an honorable discharge with the rank of corporal. leaving the military, I entered college and spent two years studying drafting, because white newspapers turned me down for employment, and black newspapers positions where filled in journalism. Not being able to find a job in drafting, I finally considered auto factory work, and later was employed by the states preschool system as a teacher's assistant. Some years later I answered Gods calling on my life and entered a local seminary and studied biblical counseling for two years. Writing sermons during my studies, took me back to my first love of writing. I am presently an ordained minister, and still writing sermons, but this is my first novel. Rosemary Campbell - Rosemary Campbell, born and raised in Detroit Michigan, the daughter of Joseph and Gertrude Olszewski, the fourth of seven children. I was raised a Catholic and educated in the Catholic school system. I graduated from Cody High School in Detroit, Michigan, and went to work in the private sector where I worked several jobs in the insurance Industry until I met my husband Marshall Campbell. We married in 1980 and had our first daughter Stacey in 1983. I suffered a miscarriage with a second pregnancy after Stacey, but God was merciful and awarded us with Nathena in 1989. I reentered the work force in 1997, after 15 years as a stay at home mom. I presently work for Value Options, where we manage the mental, health and dependent benefits for the auto industry and others companies.