Wings Like a Dove
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Can the invisible walls that separate people ever come down?
In 1933, Anna Leibowicz has lost faith in the American dream that brought her Jewish family from Poland to America. Her father has vanished, her future has collapsed, and a painful secret leaves her believing she no longer belongs anywhere—not even with the people she loves most. Hoping to find her missing father and somehow redeem the wreckage left behind, Anna leaves home and journeys to rural Indiana, where she unexpectedly finds refuge among a houseful of orphan boys, a community of misunderstood outsiders, and Thomas Chandler—a quiet, deep-hearted caretaker whose compassion unsettles her guarded heart. But the small town around them is increasingly divided by prejudice, fear, and suspicion. As hostility grows toward immigrants, Catholics, and the young Black boy Thomas has taken in, Anna finds herself torn between protecting those she’s come to love, and fleeing before her own secrets bring them harm. Set during the Great Depression, Wings Like a Dove is an emotionally rich story about hidden wounds, belonging, prejudice, grace, and the invisible walls that separate people from one another. Filled with warmth, quiet humor, found family, and hard-won hope, it’s a story about wounded people learning they are not beyond love—or God’s grace. Oh, that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest… |
