
Walking Across Egypt
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Narrated by:
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Norman Dietz
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By:
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Clyde Edgerton
Meet Mattie Rigsby, 78, who keeps a clean house and bakes the best pound cake in Listre, North Carolina. Her children grown, she lives a comfortable and independent life. Her orderly days are about to be disrupted, however, by a stray. Unkempt and unloved, teenaged and delinquent, Wesley Benfield just might need a piece of her apple pie and a verse or two of "Walking Across Egypt", her favorite hymn. As Mattie and Wesley come together, she will fill your heart with appreciation for a generation who still remembers that life is a lot better when it's filled with good food and good manners.
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Critic reviews
"A winner, a homespun romp that I suspect Mark Twain would have loved." ( The Columbia State)
THIS IS A FABULOUS NOVEL. There is no one (I know, there will be someone, a mean person, for instance) who will not enjoy this book.
A close friend of mine who was prevented, by her *own father* to continue school after the 6th-grade (in the 1940s, in a dirt-poor, rural, black community), because she had to go to work and bring in money, LOVED THIS NOVEL (past tense only because she's deceased).
I have a Master's in English, and I LOVE THIS NOVEL. And everyone in-between will love this novel, too. You will laugh so hard that you will be embarrassed if you're out in public. You will find yourself laughing at the memory of some of the priceless scenes, when you're sitting on the bus, and you'll have to cover your face, if you don't want everyone looking at you as if you're an outright crazy person.
And it will touch your heart deeply and restore, if this is needed, your faith in the human race.
Marian Cates
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Must read
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A Perfect Summer Listen
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Walking across Egypt is great
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Challenge the LIVING of Truth
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Humorous- caught myself laughing out loud.
On a serious note it speaks true about our seniors and how they desire so much for their grown children.
Such an interesting story
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2nd Best Thing to Sitting at Grandma's House
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Worth the read!
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Great book!
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Suddenly nothing happened
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