Ask the Author: Gena Thomas
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Gena Thomas
This is so hard to answer because I need to determine my favorite fictional world, not just my favorite piece of fiction. And I like a lot of fictional worlds that have very dark evils in them! (Harry Potter, His Dark Materials, Inheritance Series, Narnia.)
My son and I recently read How to Train Your Dragon together, and because I think I could learn to ride a dragon without getting into any dark trouble, I choose that world so that me and my family could fly dragons together over beautiful landscapes.
My son and I recently read How to Train Your Dragon together, and because I think I could learn to ride a dragon without getting into any dark trouble, I choose that world so that me and my family could fly dragons together over beautiful landscapes.
Gena Thomas
When a reader tells me, "You gave me words for my feelings." That's probably one of my most favorite compliments as a writer.
Gena Thomas
I am typically writing about merging the spiritual realm with the physical, so when I read something faith-provoking or something that is purely physical but I am able to correlate it to something in the spiritual it inspires me to work through my thoughts. I typically need to write my thoughts out anyway in order to better understand what I believe, so often it's about understanding myself better.
Gena Thomas
Keep pounding down the doors. When someone says no, go ask someone else. Don't give up. Utilize the resource you have and go out and ask for more, whether they are intangible or tangible.
Gena Thomas
Separated by the Border, set to publish Oct. 29 with IVPress.
From Honduras to Mexico to the United States and then back again to Honduras, Separated by the Border parallels the lives of two mothers: one Honduran and one American, and the journey that brought them deeply into each other’s lives. Immigration, foster care, machismo, and faith permeate this story about Guadalupe and her daughter Julia—not actual names—who were separated in their attempt to cross the Mexico-U.S. border in late fall of 2017. In early 2018, Julia was taken into custody by the State of North Carolina where she began living with her foster family (including her foster mother who is the author of the book). In July 2018, Gena Thomas and her husband traveled back to Honduras with Julia to reunite her with her mother and brothers. Much of the book is written in first person from Gena's perspective, along with third-person narratives from interviews with Guadalupe.
From Honduras to Mexico to the United States and then back again to Honduras, Separated by the Border parallels the lives of two mothers: one Honduran and one American, and the journey that brought them deeply into each other’s lives. Immigration, foster care, machismo, and faith permeate this story about Guadalupe and her daughter Julia—not actual names—who were separated in their attempt to cross the Mexico-U.S. border in late fall of 2017. In early 2018, Julia was taken into custody by the State of North Carolina where she began living with her foster family (including her foster mother who is the author of the book). In July 2018, Gena Thomas and her husband traveled back to Honduras with Julia to reunite her with her mother and brothers. Much of the book is written in first person from Gena's perspective, along with third-person narratives from interviews with Guadalupe.
Gena Thomas
Serving as a missionary in Northern Mexico for over four years, my husband and I started serving as youth pastors in a neighborhood called Mission. Mission is made up of make-shift houses, some of cardboard and tin. We were confronted with a level of poverty we did not know how to respond well to. So I signed up for graduate school, studying international development through Eastern University. This book is all about merging what I learned in school to what I saw before me as a missionary.
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