Faith and the Good Thing (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Charles Johnson
- First Published: 1974
- Type of Plot: Philosophical novel
- Time of Work: The 1930’s or 1940’s
- Setting: Rural Georgia and Chicago
- Principal Characters: Faith Cross, The Swamp Woman, Todd Cross, Lavidia Cross, Dr. Richard M. (Red-Eyes) Barrett, Arnold T. Tippis, Isaac Maxwell, Alpha Omega Holmes
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Self-discovery
- Locales: Chicago, IL
The Novel
Lavidia Cross, a black widow in rural Georgia, had little to leave her only daughter, Faith Cross, except a mysterious injunction: Faith must get herself a “Good Thing.” In Faith and the Good Thing, Faith Cross goes to Chicago, first to discover what this Good Thing is and then to acquire it.
Before her mother’s death, Faith had been “saved,” and for a time she had thought that God would bring her happiness, but the idea of the Good Thing supplants salvation as her guiding force. Puzzled, she consults a mysterious werewitch, the Swamp Woman,...
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