Ann Boyd

After Ann Boyd leaves church, the preacher says he hopes the congregation will burn the bench she sat on. The insult lands on a woman who has endured twenty years of being shunned—and has finally dared to return.

On a hard-worked farm near the road to Darley, in a close-knit rural community, Ann earns her living and keeps her own counsel. But one Sunday she goes back to church, hoping to claim the place she believes is hers, only to find Brother Bazemore turning the pulpit against her. Now the neighbors carry his words back to her, and Ann must wrestle with her fury, her pride, and the old misfortune that made her an outcast. How much more can she endure before she answers them?

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