The Perfect Swing : One Woman's Search for God

By Thomas Lenhart

The story is historical fiction. It is set, for the most part, in Chicago in the early 1900s and through a young woman who plays baseball weaves together five generations of a family. After her closest friend is killed in a horrendous train wreck, Mattie Welsh has to know the truth about God. Was God that terrible day, as the psalmist says, hiding? Or was God not there because God exits only in our minds? Her search for answers takes Mattie to the Chicago Training School for City, Home and Foreign Missions. To be admitted, she hides. Who she appears to be, a person of faith committed to serving God, is not who she is. Instead of believing, she doubts; instead of serving God, she is committed to serving herself. There Mattie collides with the school's formidable principal and founder, Lucy Rider Meyer. About to graduate, she wants to be a Deaconess. It's the next step in uncovering the truth about God. Faith, though, is a requirement, and Mattie knows this time she can't hide.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 109858600X
• ISBN13: 9781098586003
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 385 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.0" x 5.5"