Greed is invisible until you see the damage it inflicts on innocent children. Redemption, a young adult fiction story, exposes raw images of families caught between social lines when federal funds, intended to trickle down from corporate landowners never makes it into the hands of tenant farmers.
When agriculture was the bedrock of the American economy, families, suddenly penniless, lost nearly everything in historic floods, bank failures, political and social annihilation. But at their core, one family would not let catastrophes defeat them.Adele Christina Dawson, the oldest stepchild of an imbittered farmer, is suddenly thrust into adulthood when her mother dies giving birth to a 10th child.
At 15 years of age, she is the blended family’s only hope to help raise the infant, tend to her stepsisters, and become the matriarch. But Adele has other plans. She remembers her life as the young daughter of a once-wealthy coal owner, and she intends to find a way back to West Virginia, despite her stepsister’s efforts to keep her from leaving. The more intentional she becomes, the more she learns she is living with a man who knows the real story behind her father’s death.
