ASIN: B00JFFY430
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 360
Author Frances Kogen spent the final 20 years of her life writing a novel about her mother--a story they were both too afraid to share in their lifetimes.Frances passed away in December 2011 of pancreatic cancer, but her talent and legacy live on in her book, "God is Expensive," a manuscript which her family discovered only after she died."God is Expensive" is a work of historical fiction. The time period is 1890 to 1932, but the ingredients of her story are of the moment: racism, feminism, stock market corruption, murder, and poverty. The story follows Mara Ney (real life: Miriam Vey), an adventurous child from an outport fishing village in Newfoundland. She moves to China to become a Christian missionary. There she meets and marries a Chinese man and has his child. Due to bigotry and backlash, her sponsors retract their support, and she is forced to send her son away to live with ...
