Cathy Bonner

God's Pocket Cathy Bonner

She was like no one else I've ever known. Tall and imposing, she had the dignity of an aristocrat. When she held my hand, her strength sheltered me from danger. Yet when she was crossed, she could be as devastating as a force of nature. How had Grandma Tillie come to be so strong? Poor and uneducated, she had spent nearly twenty years of her life working as a servant in other peoples' homes, subordinating her needs to theirs. And why, for someone smart and God-fearing, had she made so many reckless choices-such as her marriage to my grandfather, alias Injun Joe? Desiring answers to these and other questions, I explored her life and used much of what I discovered as the source of this novel. While her decisions wavered between common sense and rashness, she remained steady to her faith and her work ethic, and always to her dreams. They were her steps to GOD'S POCKET.