Reviewed by Eileen Quinn Knight, Ph.D. Profiles in Catholicism
The author, Christine Sunderland serves as managing editor for American Church union Publishing and holds a B.A. in English literature from San Francisco State University, Cum Laude. She is the author of six award winning novels about faith and family freedom of speech and religion, and the importance of history and human dignity.
The book is about a holy hermit, a Holocaust survivor, a literary librarian, and a Christian geneticist is searching for peace and happiness in a culture of chaos. Herman Abrams, 80, and his sister Elizabeth, 84, escaped the holocaust in Greece and make it to America as children. Elizabeth retired from teaching high school Western Civilization, and Abram who retired from teaching classics at U.C. Berkeley, converted to Christianity and retreated to Angel Mountain to ray with his icons for the world and preach from the mountainside.
Elizabeth hires Catherine, 33, to sort her home library. When Gregory, 37, a geneticist supporting intelligent design, falls from the mountainside and is rescued by Abram, these four lives are changed forever. “The earth quakes fires rage, and lightning strikes, as antifa protestors threaten the hermit and his friends. Angels bridge Heaven and Earth, and eternity intersect time. Is this the end of the world? Is the kingdom coming? Angel Mountain shows how to live in the midst of disaster and how lives can be remade if we have bold enough hearts. Read if you dare!