The Hallelujah Side

A funny, heart-warming novel. . .remarkable. . .poignantly humorous. . . . Huffey's light touch with her material, and her sensitive rendering of a religious youngster's matter-of-fact belief that the world may end any minute, move her story from the paradoxical to the plausible. --Publishers Weekly Brimming with humor and wisdom, The Hallelujah Side is a wondrous tale told through the eyes of a precocious and charmingly earnest nine-year-old girl. With observations as sharp and honest as tempered steel, Roxanne Fish will make you laugh even as your heart breaks. Rhoda Huffey has written an infinitely fascinating and memorable novel. --Connie May Fowler, author of Remembering Blue Characters burst into reality from The Hallelujah Side holding tambourines and Das Kapital and tubes of Tangerine Kiss lipstick in their hands. Rhoda Huffey depicts Roxanne Fish's struggle to grow up in her radically evangelical family with humor and see-through-you insight. Every reader will be rooting for Roxy to open her throat and sing her own unique soul in her amazing 'porkchop' voice. --Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab's Wife This is a wonderful book. It's wonderful! I loved the people and sympathized with their idealism, even their metaphysics. And the author's mastery of structural conjunctions in the story is a revelation. --Louis B. Jones, author of Ordinary Money Praise for Rhoda Huffey & The Hallelujah Side: In her vivid first novel, Rhoda Huffey's sinners are bathed in the Technicolor hues of Tangerine Kiss lipstick and green-striped bikinis, while their less worldly counterparts make do with discards from the missionary donation box.--New York Times Book Review