Additional subtitle: A Story of Friendship and Conversion
by Nancy Jo Sullivan
Hardcover, 124 pages, Carver County Library
I requested this online via interlibrary loan to show Dan Thompson's students how easy it is to request books, but I'm not sure those sixth graders were ready to do that level of work in finding heroes' biographies. As long as I had this book, I decided to go ahead and read it. I knew a bit about Mary Jo Copeland, but not a lot.
Wow. What an incredible woman! This particular book is much more about the author's life, but I'm also reading another biography of Copeland, so I'm getting a double dose. This book shows clearly her intense love for all God's people. The author herself is moved and affected by her time with Mary Jo, and sees how poor people's lives are transformed as well.
The only thing that bothered me about this book was the continual focus the author placed on her one daughter with Downs syndrome. What about her other two girls? Finally, in a later chapter, she draws one of her other girls into the storytelling. But even her author picture is just her and her daughter Sarah. I wonder - is it because the other two didn't want to be included? It just seemed weird to me - as though she favored Sarah over the other two.
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