Bridge to a Distant Star
June 29, 2011
This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing
David C. Cook; New edition (June 1, 2011) by Carolyn Williford
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Carolyn Williford has authored seven books, including Jordan’s Bend, Devotions for Families That Can’t Sit Still, and Faith Tango, as well as numerous articles. She and her husband, Craig, live in Deerfield, Illinois, where he serves as president of Trinity International University. They have two children and four grandchildren.
ABOUT THE BOOK
It All Comes Tumbling Down
As a storm rages in the night, unwary drivers venture onto Tampa Bay’s most renowned bridge. No one sees the danger ahead. No one notices the jagged gap hidden by the darkness and rain. Yet when the bridge collapses vehicles careen into the churning waters of the bay below.
In that one catastrophic moment, three powerful stories converge: a family ravaged by their child’s heartbreaking news, a marriage threatened by its own facade, and a college student burdened by self doubt. As each story unfolds, the characters move steadily closer to that fateful moment on the bridge. And while each character searches for grace, the storms in their lives loom as large as the storm that awaits them above the bay.
When these characters intersect in Carolyn Williford’s gripping and moving volume of three novellas, they also collide with the transforming truth of Christ: Deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow me.
If you would like to read the first chapter of Bridge to a Distant Star, go HERE.
Sally Says: I chose to read this book because I guessed the author came up with the idea after the bridge collapse in Minneapolis. I was wrong — she was thinking of another disaster years ago.
The book begins with the accident that causes the collapse, but before we know what happens, we’re whisked back in time a few months, and we know someone we’re reading about will be on the bridge when it collapses.
As I read, I wondered how these people were going to survive, how their stories were all going to intersect once they hit that water. But the ending was nothing like I’d imagined, which was both good and bad.
If you’re looking for something different than the usual novel, this may be the one for you. There are three completely separate stories in the book, all connected because of people in the story being on the bridge. While there were some writing techniques that distracted me a bit, I kept reading because I had to know what happened to these poor people. Having the three short stories in the book made it easy reading, easy to pick up from right where I’d last put it down.