From the book:
She whispers, “I’m supposed to take you home.”
“Not yet,” Abel says. “Please, just not yet.”
“All Abel wants is a little bit of magic in his life. Enough money so his mom doesn’t cry at night. Healing for his broken body. And maybe a few answers about his past.
“When Abel discovers letters to him from the dad he believed dead, he wonders if magic has come to the hills of Mattingly, Virginia, after all. But not everything is as it seems.
“With a lot of questions and a little bit of hope, Abel decides to run away to find the truth. But danger follows him from the moment he jumps his first boxcar, forcing Abel to rely upon his simpleminded friend Willie—a man wanted for murder who knows more about truth than most—and a beautiful young woman who was already on the train. From Appalachia to the Tennessee wilds and through the Carolina mountains, the name of a single small town beckons: Fairhope. That is where Abel believes his magic lays. But will it be the sort that will bring a broken boy healing? And is that the magic that will one day lead him home?”
If you’ve not yet read a Billy Coffey novel, you are seriously missing out. His novels are brimming with mystery, wonder, and even magic, strumming the readers’ heartstrings with lyrical prose and spiritual beauty. And Coffey’s latest, Some Small Magic, hits all the right notes: I laughed, I cried, I sat in shock, and my heart smiled (and more than once for all of them!).
Abel and Dumb Willie are characters that you desperately wish you could hug, just hold them and love them. Yet, at the same time, they are such amazing examples of strength and perseverance that you have to kind of sit back in respect. They are the type of characters that make you rethink what you really believe about the people around you, and that is a relatively rare and tremendously awesome thing to find in a story.
With shades of such beautiful novels as Of Mice and Men and The Book Thief, Coffey’s Some Small Magic is a tale not to be missed, but to be savored and reread for years to come. It releases March 14, 2017, so be sure to grab your copy and curl up for a wonder-filled story of love, hope, and Some Small Magic.
Many thanks to Thomas Nelson and NetGalley for the chance to read this book early. I was not required to give a positive review. All opinions are my very own!
