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Violence
Some
Some violence in the mountain community setting
Language
None
No profanity
Sexual Content
Barely any
Minimal content; an adult relationship is present in the backstory
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
The psychological weight of guilt and the search for forgiveness — central to Rivers's Christian fiction — gives the novel its emotional depth
What this book is about
Francine Rivers's Christian historical novel follows Cadi Forbes, a ten-year-old in a Welsh-American Appalachian community in the 1850s, where a sin eater — an outcast who absorbs the sins of the dead — is the community's spiritual center. Cadi seeks the sin eater for her own guilt, and what she finds changes everything. Rivers writes accessible Christian historical fiction with warmth and genuine historical imagination.
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