Go Tell It on the Mountains
Description
Years have gone by since the death of Noah his special needs son, and Wiley Cantrell realizes it's time to move on. He and his husband Jackson try to adopt little Tony Gorzola, a deaf boy with HIV who is emotionally traumatized.
Difficulties quickly set in. Tony is a sweet boy but very damaged by abuse and neglect. And Tony's mother, in prison, is unwilling to relinquish her parental rights. No sooner do they get the go ahead to foster Tony when another child they had considered becomes available -- the daughter Jackson always wanted.
With two children on their hands, life is complicated -- wonderfully so. But just as things begin to settle down, Tony, his immune system compromised, falls ill with pneumonia ... and Wiley and Jackson find their little family faced with crisis once again.
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A Lambda Award nominee for his novel Bilal's Bread, Wilgus was named one of the best columnists in Mississippi and had an award-winning movie based on his first novel, Mindfulness and Murder.
A former newspaper editor, Wilgus is a proud dad who lives in Tupelo, Mississippi, right down the street from where Elvis grew up.
For more information, visit facebook.com/WilgusWorld.
