This week, the
Christian Fiction Blog Alliance
is introducing
Chasing The Wind
B&H Books (August 1, 2012)
by
Pamela Ewen
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Until
recently retiring to write full time, Pamela Binnings Ewen was a
partner in the Houston office of the international law firm of
BakerBotts, L.L.P., specializing in corporate finance. She now lives
just outside New Orleans, Louisiana, with her husband, James Lott.
She has served on the Board of Directors of Inprint, Inc., a non-profit
organization supporting the literary arts in Houston, Texas, as well as
the Advisory Board for The New Orleans Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society,
and currently serves on the Board of Directors of The Tennessee Williams
Festival in New Orleans; Pamela is a co-founder of the Northshore
Literary Society in the Greater New Orleans area. She is also a member
of the National League of American Pen Women.
Pamela’s first novel, Walk Back The Cat (Broadman & Holman. May,
2006) is the story of an embittered and powerful clergyman who learns an
ancient secret, confronting him with truth and a choice that may
destroy him.
She is also the best-selling author of the acclaimed non-fiction book
Faith On Trial, published by Broadman & Holman in 1999, currently in
its third printing.
Although it was written for non-lawyers, Faith On Trial was also chosen
as a text for a course on law and religion at Yale Law School in the
Spring of 2000, along with The Case For Christ by Lee Stroble.
Continuing the apologetics begun in Faith On Trial, Pamela also appears
with Gary Habermas, Josh McDowell, Darrell Bock, Lee Stroble, and others
in the film Jesus: Fact or Fiction, a Campus Crusade for Christ
production.
Pamela is the latest writer to emerge from a Louisiana family recognized
for its statistically improbable number of successful authors. A
cousin, James Lee Burke, who won the Edgar Award, wrote about the common
ancestral grandfathers in his Civil War novel
White Dove At Morning.
Among other writers in the family are Andre Dubus (Best Picture Oscar nomination for
The Bedroom; his son, Andre Dubus III, author of
The House of Sand and Fog,
a Best Picture Oscar nomination and an Oprah pick; Elizabeth Nell Dubus
(the Cajun trilogy); and Alafair Burke, just starting out with the well
received Samantha Kincaid mystery series.
ABOUT THE BOOK
At
8:47 A.M. on Wednesday, October 12, 1977, new-to-town businessman
Bingham Murdock flew his small plane into New Orleans, banking it in
such a way that a ray of sunshine shot through the city at light speed.
Amalise Catoir saw the flash from her sixteenth floor law office window.
Finally feeling alive after the death of her abusive husband, she
imagined seeing the plane was a fate for her eyes only; a special
connection between the unknown giver and she, the recipient of light.
But someone else saw it, a six-year-old Cambodian refugee in foster care
for whom a sudden burst of brightness reminds him of artillery fire.
Destined to cross paths with the man and the child, Amalise doesn’t yet
know the deeper spiritual lesson she will learn: that we are responsible
not only for the things we do, but also for the things that we don’t.
If you would like to read an excerpt of
Chasing The Wind, go
HERE.
