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The Asante Effect
Set during the turmoil of the Civil Rights Era, The Asante Effect takes place in Jackson, Ms. amid racial prejudice and tension that permeates throughout the atmosphere of every day to day life.
Like a fish out of water, young Jimmy Chisolm is the son of transplanted parents who both were raised in New York City before moving south, first to college in Tennessee then to Jackson for career. Their view of the world is 180 degrees from most of their home state born neighbors.
Jimmy discovers an escape from the tension, deep in the forbidden woods. Strictly prohibited from straying to the forest where many dangers await, Jimmy falls prey to his own sense of adventure and curiosity and soon becomes embroiled in the calamity of racial prejudice and crime.
There is a long history of dangerous characters and ghosts and mysteries in those woods based on big stories but little actual evidence. Jimmy is just brave enough to stick his nose into big people's business, and big people's problems.
He is on the cusp of discovering the real secret of the woods, finding a friend in what most consider forbidden territory, when the woods explode with danger from every direction and every dark path.
Only a real hero with true spiritual power can emerge from the the turmoil of ignorance and prejudice and help rescue the innocents.
But where is that hero...or is it Jimmy?
Like a fish out of water, young Jimmy Chisolm is the son of transplanted parents who both were raised in New York City before moving south, first to college in Tennessee then to Jackson for career. Their view of the world is 180 degrees from most of their home state born neighbors.
Jimmy discovers an escape from the tension, deep in the forbidden woods. Strictly prohibited from straying to the forest where many dangers await, Jimmy falls prey to his own sense of adventure and curiosity and soon becomes embroiled in the calamity of racial prejudice and crime.
There is a long history of dangerous characters and ghosts and mysteries in those woods based on big stories but little actual evidence. Jimmy is just brave enough to stick his nose into big people's business, and big people's problems.
He is on the cusp of discovering the real secret of the woods, finding a friend in what most consider forbidden territory, when the woods explode with danger from every direction and every dark path.
Only a real hero with true spiritual power can emerge from the the turmoil of ignorance and prejudice and help rescue the innocents.
But where is that hero...or is it Jimmy?
143 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 24, 2015
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May 29, 2016
Very well written and a great story
The book was well written. I enjoyed the story and all the exploits the young man had. I even liked the ending. I did not find any political agenda in the book but I don't read between the lines. I just enjoy the story for its own sake.
The book was well written. I enjoyed the story and all the exploits the young man had. I even liked the ending. I did not find any political agenda in the book but I don't read between the lines. I just enjoy the story for its own sake.
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