A review by toniapeckover
Roots and Sky by Christie Purifoy

5.0

Roots and Sky is first of all a beautiful read. Christie Purifoy has a lyrical, contemplative style that carries you along with her through each season of the year as her family begins making a home at Maplehurst. Purifoy is an intimate observer and her descriptions of home and landscape bring you right to the front door with her. But she is also an intimate observer of the emotional and spiritual landscapes, and her weaving of all three provide a richly compelling backdrop. This is a christian story, so Purifoy also braids a great deal of theology into the text, but this only serves to help us understand her worldview and provide the context for where she's leading us - which is ultimately toward hope. This is a book for slow, thoughtful reading - not because it is difficult to understand - but because we can understand it all too well, and there are depths here, truths, that are balm for the soul.