Right Kind of Fool
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Publisher Description
Thirteen-year-old Loyal Raines is supposed to stay close to home on a hot summer day in 1934. When he slips away for a quick swim in the river and finds a dead body, he wishes he'd obeyed his mother. The ripples caused by his discovery will impact the town of Beverly, West Virginia, in ways no one could have imagined.
The first person those ripples disturb is Loyal's absentee father. When Creed Raines realized his infant son was deaf, he headed for the hills, returning only to help meet his family's basic needs. But when Loyal, now a young teen, stumbles upon a murder it's his father he runs to tell--shaping the words with his hands. As Creed is pulled into the investigation he discovers that what sets his son apart isn't his inability to hear but rather his courage. Longing to reclaim the life he abandoned, Creed will have to do more than help solve a murder if he wants to win his family's hearts again.
Customer Reviews
Be all you can be
Maybe all he needed to be was the person God made him. - Loyal
Loyal is a 13 year old boy, who is just a little different than his friends, having lost his hearing as a young child. A very smart young man, he still feels like he doesn’t fit in, something his dysfunctional family life only compounds. His mother is overprotective and his father, Creed, is mostly absent. There is plenty of guilt and blame filling the chasm between his parents.
Finding a dead body certainly would scare anyone and Loyal is no different. In helping with the investigation, he and his parents learn that he is capable of so much more than they give him credit for. — You are braver than I ever was. I’m proud for folks to see that - Creed to Loyal
The author has done a fabulous job of taking us inside the world of the deaf, showing us just how difficult it is for them to communicate and yet subtly teaching us how we can facilitate conversation with them. After all, we are all different, hearing or non-hearing. May we all be ready to learn new ways of understanding others.
A copy of this book was received through Bethany House Publishers and Baker Publishing Group. The comments and impressions are my own and were in no way solicited.