This April, award-winning author Amy K. Sorrells will see the release of her novel Then Sings My Soul (Tyndale House), a moving time-slip novel about family, faith, and long-held secrets. Then Sings My Soul follows Nel and her ailing father, Jakob, as they navigate his dementia and the buried history of his childhood in Eastern Europe.
1904, Chudniv, Ukraine. Playing hide-and-seek in bucolic fields of sunflowers, young Jakob never imagines the horrific secrets he will carry as he and his brother escape through genocide-ridden Eastern Europe.
1994, South Haven, Michigan. At age 94, time is running out for any hope that Jakob can be free from his burden of guilt.
When Jakob’s wife dies, he and his daughter, Nel, are forced to face the realities of his worsening dementia—including a near-naked, midnight jaunt down the middle of main street—as well as emerging shadows Nel had no idea lay beneath her father’s beloved, curmudgeonly ways.
While Nel navigates the restoration and sale of Jakob’s dilapidated lake house, her high school sweetheart shows up in town, along with unexpected correspondence from Ukraine. And when she discovers a mysterious gemstone in Jakob’s old lapidary room, Jakob’s condition worsens as he begins having flashbacks about his baby sister from nearly a century past.
As father and daughter race against time to discover the truth behind Jackob’s fragmented memories, the God they have both been running from shows that he redeems not only broken years, but also the future.
A registered nurse and Indiana native, Sorrells writes from the heart about the heartland. Her characters experience real hardship as well as real redemption, allowing readers to see hope in unexpected places. In addition to Then Sings My Soul, she is the author of three other captivating novels: Lead Me Home, How Sweet the Sound, and Before I Saw You.
Amy K. Sorrells’s diverse, award-winning writing has appeared in medical journals, newspapers, and an anthology (Indy Writes Books) benefiting literacy in central Indiana. She is the author of four critically acclaimed novels. She makes her home on the outskirts of town with her husband and three sons.