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Overview

Two Hearts, One God.
Should Anything Else Matter?

Zora Nella Hampton Johnson knows exactly where she comes from—and her daddy won't let her forget. Of course for that privilege he keeps her in Prada and Kate Spade, Coach and YSL. He chooses her boyfriend, her car, her address, and ignores her love of painting, art, and the old ways of her grandaddy's soulful AME church—where the hymns pleaded, cajoled, and raised the roof. Her daddy may be a preacher, but some-where among the thousands of church members, the on-site coffee house, and the JumboTron, Zora lost God. And she wants Him back.

Nicky Parker, a recent graduate of Berkeley and reformed playboy, also suffers the trials of being a preacher's kid, and he can't remember the last time he saw eye-to-eye with his white, racist, Southern Baptist father. What he does remember—and it will be forever burned in his brain despite myriad prayers to Jesus—is the way Zora looked the first time he saw her. Like Nefertiti. Only better. When they meet at a bible study far from their respective home churches, the first churlish, sarcastic sparks that fly sizzle with defensiveness. But God has a special way of feeding the flames and though of different flocks, these two lost sheep will find Him and much, much more.

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The voice of beautiful Zora Nella Hampton Johnson-her name echoing the author of her favorite novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God-will take you up and carry you along until she utters her very last syllable. Anger, laughter and delight come from Zora's sharp, sassy tongue as if she is talking out loud. Burney's gift for voice is not limited to her heroine, though it takes her longer to get the other main character, Nicky Parker, the handsome but poor son of a racist pastor, to shine as distinctly as Zora. At this novel's heart are love and race-what happens when a self-described BAP (black American princess), the daughter of a famous megachurch leader, falls in love with a young white man. Zora and Nicky's dialogue about race is unflinching, with attitude, honesty and occasional humor. Burney pushes her prose to the edge of the edgiest in the "Christian fiction" genre, and then barrels right over. She doesn't sugar-coat, especially when it comes to sex, yet she manages to create a love story that's both erotic and chaste. Faith in Jesus comes to life on the page through Zora and Nicky's intense, if imperfect, soul searching. Though parts are a bit melodramatic, Burney gives readers a page-turner for all audiences, Christian and beyond. (Apr.)

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780781445504
  • Publisher: Cook, David C.
  • Publication date: 4/1/2008
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 400
  • Sales rank: 857,528
  • Product dimensions: 5.58 (w) x 10.88 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

Claudia Mair Burney is the author of the novel Zora and Nicky: A Novel in Black and White, as well as the Amanda Bell Brown Mysteries and the Exorsista series for teens. Her work has appeared in Discipleship Journal magazine, The One Year Life Verse Devotional Bible, and Justice in the Burbs. She lives in Michigan with her husband, five of their seven children, and a quirky dwarf rabbit.

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  • Anonymous

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    This was a really good story. The characters and plot were developed and believeable. Not only was the black/white race thing accurrate but also the way parenrs place their expectations on a child and the damage and weight it does to them is dead on. Zora and Nicky were two young adults who fell in love on the way to doing what their parents wanted. Good read!

    JaKai

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  • Posted December 27, 2011

    I Love this book

    this book is really good i couldn't put it down even if i wanted to. i recommend this book to EVERYONE. anyone who thinks they will never read tat PERFECT book. here it is. its a love story that you wouldn't see coming.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 2, 2008

    Hard to put down

    This was one of the more honest looks at the issue of race and religion in America. She doesn't hold back her feelings and ideas on this matter. In the mist of the hot topics expressed in this novel. It is also a very passionate love story between to people brought together by God. I highly recommend this book.

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