Where the Bells
Still Ring

In Gracetown, North Carolina, Bitsy Mitchell knows the rhythms of church and community life. But she keeps noticing seven-year-old Eden: the child left behind, again and again. As troubling signs accumulate, Bitsy can’t settle for the comfortable explanation that everything is fine. Keeping the peace has its appeal. So does believing the best of people. Neither answers the question Eden has put before her: what responsibility do you have to a child once you’ve begun to see that something is wrong?

There’s room here for laughter, doubt, and people who get on one another’s nerves. Faith is part of their lives; it doesn’t settle every question. And kindness sometimes asks more of them than they’d like.

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