Die Europaischen Kolonieen: Beitrage Zur Kritik Der Deutschen Kolonialprojekte (1881)

In 1929, six-year-old Belinda Fisher, daughter of a traveling tent preacher, is struck by lightning and visits God. He sends her back to her parents, but she returns with three gifts that will change not only her life, but the lives of everyone around her. She is given Godas song in her mouth, His love in her heart and His healing in her hands. Accused by her grandparents of having satanic powers, she is terrified when they threaten to take her away from her parents. The family flees in the middle of the night to hide her away in the depths of the Ozark Mountains with her maternal grandparents. There she meets the garden kids, her cousins, who take her to their play town and show her Bitter Hill, a place that draws her as the years pass. Even here in this secluded place she meets opposition to her healing, in the form of the witch, Aunty Gorgon. She will need all her wits to survive.