Is it possible to fall in love with the author of a book? Yes! As I read the last of the five books by Eva Rutland available on the download site, I grew more and more certain the above answer to the question remained yes.
How fortunate we are when we read not only a great book but one that speaks to our hearts. When an author can take us in to her world, when we can feel her pain and her tears, embrace with her all she has told us including her triumph and victory over difficulties, we know we have met and spent time with a master of her craft.
Eva Rutland is all that and more. We may live whole lives and never read or meet one, but sometimes we are given fortune beyond price.
Eva Rutland, author of 20 novels, including, Marriage Bait, The Million Dollar Marriage, Almost A Wife, Heart And Soul, and No Crystal Stair, all available on the download site, is our guest tonight. Eva Grew up in a time when integration was a dream yet unrealized. In the world of African Americans, the answer to most simple desires in life was a resounding no.
No, you cannot sit here, eat in this restaurant, attend the neighborhood school with all the white kids. For black men, even with education and degrees that indicated their knowledge and skill, doors for jobs in which their intellect and ability would be employed remained closed.
What is it like to have hopes and dreams that cannot be fulfilled? How does this affect a family? What can you do when the answer is no over and over again? Where can you find hope and strength to go on?
InEva's life, integration came finally. As a mother of a six year old daughter, how do you send your child out in to a world that will very likely reject her? Should your daughter be the first? What can a mother do if that world steals her innocent happiness? We all discover all those we meet will not love us or even like us? What would you do if you were the first to enter a school beginning the process of integration?
Many years have passed since these events took place. In the voice of Eva Rutland, in No Crystal Stair, she will take you there. She will remember and you will never forget what that world was like. You will come away from hearing her wanting more knowing you have met a courageous and very strong woman.