Montagues and Capulets?
Her star-crossed lovers belong to the Fisher and Yoder clans
In her latest novel set here, Lancaster County native Beverly
Lewis mixes sect history with the usual chaste romance that is the trademark of this Christian writer."The Parting," Book I in her new The Courtship of Nellie Fisher series, is set in the midst of an actual church schism that occurred in the 1960s.
The Romeo and Juliet similarity is appropriate if Lewis is willing to portray the brutality that's inherently a part of these schisms. If not, then it's just a shameless attempt to associate her work with pop culture for financial gain. Oh right, that's not any different from what she does with the Amish.
How does it feel, to have your cultural reference points frivolously degraded and marketed for personal gain?
1 comment:
EZ, I agree with you about Beverly Lewis and her schlock. She just proves once again, E.T. Barnum's famous dictum, "No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American people."
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