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May 22, 2013
Richmond Times Dispatch Reviews RIVER OF DUST
The TimesDispatch.com, a website version of The Richmond Times Dispatch, has reviewed Virginia Pye’s recently released novel, River of Dust, and called it “...a touching and haunting novel”.
The book review, written by correspondent and retired editor Jay Strafford, first provides an overview of the story as it explores the origins and motivations of the author, Virginia Pye. Finally, the article talks about Pye’s grandfather, Watts O. Pye, who was a founder of the Oberlin College-Shansi Program and a missionary in China in the early 1900s. Below is an excerpt from the article…
“River of Dust” is quite obviously a work of love for Pye, one inspired by her family history. Her grandfather, Watts O. Pye, was a founder of the Oberlin College-Shansi Program that took him and his wife, Gertrude, to China as the first returning missionaries after 1900’s Boxer Rebellion. Their son and Virginia Pye’s father, Lucian W. Pye, was born in China and became a political scientist and sinologist.
Pye, a three-term president of James River Writers, has given readers a touching and haunting novel, one rendered with immediacy by her fully realized characters (sometimes sympathetic, sometimes not), her silken prose and her vivid description of era and venue. Few fictional depictions of missionary life can equal “River of Dust” for understanding, or knowledge, or truth.
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