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From Terry Kay one of Americas most gifted storytellers comes a poignant novel of love acceptance and the wonders of the world in which we live. In the summer of 1948 Noah Locke arrives in the small North Carolina hamlet of Bowerstown set deep in the Valley of Light. A quiet simple man and army veteran Noah is haunted by the horrors he witnessed when his infantry unit liberated Dachau. Wandering the South he seeks both to escape the past and to find a place to call home. Noah is initially treated with amusement by the people of Bowerstown until he begins fishing. For Noah possesses an almost magical ability with a rod and reel. He soon becomes the talk of the valley and is urged to stay long enough to participate in the annual school fishing contest. He agrees finding lodging in an abandoned shack by what is known as the Lake of Grief which the locals believe holds no fish. Noah knows they are wrong beneath the water is a warrior bass waiting to test Noahs gift. But above the water Noahs innocence catches the heart of Eleanor Gunningham whose husband supposedly killed himself after returning from the war. Over the course of a week Noah will be led into the private lives of the residents of the Valley of Light. Will join them as they mourn a tragedy and will experience a miracle that will guide him home at last. «
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