The Rhythm of Grace on Standalone Mountain
Hundreds of years before Europeans first viewed the Appalachians, a Native American girl growing up in the shadow of Currahee Mountain becomes a skilled warrior and sets out on a quest to save her family from ruin. Half a millennium later, another girl, living under the same mountain and enduring similar hardships, faces a terrible decision. In order to save her family, she must face betrayal, degradation, and violence at the hands of murderous fanatics. The lives of these two girls converge during a devastating flood that hits the small town of Toccoa, Georgia.
The Rhythm of Grace On Standalone Mountain weaves together modern historical events with insights into the lives of pre-Columbian Native Americans to create a story of fierce love and redemption in the face of unspeakable evil.
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Jeffery Deal is a physician, anthropologist, inventor, and renowned speaker. His work as a tropical medicine specialist has taken him to South Sudan during its wars, Liberia during the Ebola pandemic, and dozens of other developing countries. He earned a master of arts in anthropology from the University of South Carolina and a doctorate of medicine from the Medical University of South Carolina. While a US naval officer, he completed a residency at Walter Reed Medical Center and later earned a diploma from the London School of Tropical Medicine as well as a fellowship in the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine.
Dr. Deal has contributed to numerous professional journals and newspapers and has published two novels, Toccoa: Dark Secrets of a Small Georgia Town and The Mark, as well as an ethnography of the Dinka of South Sudan, A Land at the Centre of the World.