The Kneeling Bus

By Beverly Coyle

Book Overview

The Kneeling Bus depicts Carrie Willis's coming-of-age as a minister's daughter in 1950s Florida. Hilarious and often magical, it chronicles a lifetime of the small shames and deep mortifications felt by a narrator who once dreamed herself into the mission field of the Congo--before she lost her nerve.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0899199321
• ISBN13: 9780899199320
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

What a Delight

The thing that always amazes me about Beverly Coyle's writing is how much information and feeling you have about characters within a few pages. She writes with a vivid, but simple economy of words that reveals a lot with very little. I loved these stories - especially the title story. She understands so much about mother-daughter dynamics and about forgiveness and how/when it's possible.