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Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. Sheri reynolds is an author of contemporary southern fiction. Ninah huff is the granddaughter of the founder of the church of fire and brimstone and gods almighty baptizing wind, an isolated southern religious community ruled by its patriarch. The book was chosen as an oprahs book club selection in 1997, and the paperback edition subsequently made the publishers weekly and new york times bestseller lists.
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