Bandon Public Library

Debbie Laramie is a preacher. Debbie and her son, Hayden, are sent from a big city church to the small town of Paradise, where Debbie finds a community in desperate need of direction and a town that has turned its back on its neediest neighbors. She tries to build a new vision for her congregation that embraces everyone, even the poor and outcast

In pre-WWI Brooklyn, young Francie struggles to keep her idealism alive in the face of grinding poverty, her father's alcoholism, and the comedies and tragedies of ordinary life.