Mockingbird Summer

by Lynda Rutledge

“A book, like music, is very personal. You bring yourself, your own story, to everything you read. It’s a book’s boon and bane. But it’s also its raison d’être—its reason for being—to meet you where you are. Exactly like a great piece of music.”

In big times of change, normal is what is being changed.

We forget this world is fallen. We forget that it’s our duty to remember to be better, to stand up to Evil when it shows itself, even if it sometimes shows itself within our own hearts. In fact, that’s the only kind over which we really have total control, the kind within us. It’s also the kind easiest to make right.”

Because while a journalist’s job is to tell what is true, a novelist’s job is to tell what is truth, to create a world in which

you’d want to live, in which everything is just, even if only in the end.