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Divinity in a Box: The life of a 
young girl trapped by her hometown
until tragedy strikes and she is 
forced to deal with a larger world.

Short Description:

Divinity in a Box presents details of the life of a young girl 
trapped by the traditional beliefs of her hometown of Farmersville
until tragedy strikes and she is forced to deal creatively with a
larger world.  She does so through a bi-racial male bartender whose
life is playing women.

Long Dscription:

     In our attempt to appeal to a diverse audience, we have
labored to create a literary work that expresses present tensions
arising out of both the distant and recent past.  Being raised by
a Southern Belle mother, Varina feels trapped by a set of values
that no longer work for independent women.  She does not see her
role as being the same as that of her mother, nor does she share
her father's views of the role of blacks in America.  As Varina
grows from childhood to adulthood, she continues to feel more and
more trapped by the Farmersville box.  Not until tragedy strikes
her student and best friend does she see a way out.  Perhaps then
she realizes that, in life, there is no such thing as a free box of
candy, but she definitely realizes that later in the story when
tragedy strikes her personally.
     Internal and external conflicts emanate from differences in
social class, age, sex, and race.  But most of all, Divinity in a
Box addresses the need for each individual to perform a personal
quest to resolve the tension between desires and reality by finding
that which will transcend him or her above the past and the
present, above being rich or poor, old or young, male or female,
black or white, above merely existing and into really living.  
 
                    PUBLICATION LICENSE AND RESTRICTIONS

     Shareware distributors (AND those who sell Shareware disks) have no
     permission to copy this "DIVINITY IN A BOX" disk by any means nor
     under any condition. BBS SysOps do not have any permission to make
     this publication a downloadable text file for the public, members or
     subscribers.  This is copyrighted material.  Any exceptions must be
     received in writing from Cedar Bay Press.
     
                         COPYRIGHT INFORMATION

     (C) Copyright 1995 by Bonnie Below Alcorn and Leonard Jerome
     Tidwell II. All rights are available (contact authors or the
     publisher). 


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