Each week I want to feature something I love. This week I want to feature an amazing piece of literature that I picked up at the Room For One More event last week. The speaker and author of this book, Tom Davis, was absolutely inspiring. I purchased three of his novels that day. The first is a fiction piece strongly inspired by real life. In fact- after speaking with him- he told me that the image below the image of this book- is an image that inspired one of the main characters. This Pulitzer Prize winning image was shot by a photographer who was so devastated by the sadness that he witnessed in Africa that he committed suicided shortly after taking this photograph. The editor-in-chief of Christian Fiction Online Magazine certainly says it better then I can when reviewing this book….
“Evocative and intense, ‘Scared’ cuts deep into your heart as you read along. Healing fills the pages, yet there are no easy answers given,
and it shows how each day is a struggle for the people of Swaziland to even survive……Like the Holocaust, there are some awful things that happen
in this book. Unspeakable things. But it also shows how God holds those who suffer close to His heart…..All of the ugly stuff is not smoothed over,
nor is the God-given compassion. It’s graphic and harsh in some places, but so worth reading.” -Michelle Sutton
This book is what I call ‘action provoking.’ If you read it- it is almost impossible to not want to take action and do something about the atrocities that the orphans and people of Swaziland have to suffer. So- go ahead and open up this book- and open your eyes and your heart to a very real and desperate situation in our world.
This is the image by Kevin Carter. This little girl was attempting to walk/crawl to a unicef van with food. Kevin saw the little girl and got down to compose his image of her and the vulture landed- seemingly awaiting the little girl’s death. The reason this image is a Pulitzer Prize winner, in my opinion, is because it causes such an emotional reaction, that much like this book, it forces you to at least desire to take action and help.
Pulitzer Prize winning image by Kevin Carter
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