Zora and Nicky: A Novel in Black and White

Claudia Mair Burney

Jan 2010 · David C Cook

About this ebook

Two Hearts, One God.? Should Anything Else Matter?

Zora Nella Hampton Johnson knows exactly where she comes from—and her daddy won't let her forget. Of course for that privilege he keeps her in Prada and Kate Spade, Coach and YSL. He chooses her boyfriend, her car, her address, and ignores her love of painting, art, and the old ways of her grandaddy's soulful AME church—where the hymns pleaded, cajoled, and raised the roof. Her daddy may be a preacher, but some-where among the thousands of church members, the on-site coffee house, and the JumboTron, Zora lost God. And she wants Him back.

Nicky Parker, a recent graduate of Berkeley and reformed playboy, also suffers the trials of being a preacher's kid, and he can't remember the last time he saw eye-to-eye with his white, racist, Southern Baptist father. What he does remember—and it will be forever burned in his brain despite myriad prayers to Jesus—is the way Zora looked the first time he saw her. Like Nefertiti. Only better. When they meet at a bible study far from their respective home churches, the first churlish, sarcastic sparks that fly sizzle with defensiveness. But God has a special way of feeding the flames and though of different flocks, these two lost sheep will find Him and much, much more.

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Ratings and reviews

this book was funamenal I have it in my personal library. Zora who thinks she has everything together until she meets Nicky who is the bad boy and prodigal son in one but is trying to do right thing meet at a bible study thrown together by a mutual friend clash but are drawn together they didn't know that everything was about to be shaken up. This is a must read for the open minded and for the one's that are closed to if you dare this is an eye opener and soul searching but that once get started want want to put down

This book was so moving. As a christian, i appreciated the honesty and raw truths that came from this book. There were no perfect people, just a perfect God. I cant explain how much this book spoke to me, as a believer and as an african american woman, i would recommend this book a thousand times.

Couldn't put it down!! I loved this book. As a pk myself, the struggle is real to find out who I truly am in Christ. Also, I also identified with Zora and Nicky being that I'm in an interracial relationship myself. This was very well written.

About the author

Claudia Mair Burney is the author of the novel Zora and Nicky: A Novel in Black and White, as well as the Amanda Bell Brown Mysteries and the Exorsista series for teens. Her work has appeared in Discipleship Journal magazine, The One Year Life Verse Devotional Bible, and Justice in the Burbs. She lives in Michigan with her husband, five of their seven children, and a quirky dwarf rabbit.