Joyce Shaughnessy

A Healing Place Joyce Shaughnessy

A Healing Place is an historical novel based on the Great American Depression and WWII in the Philippines.  Evicted from their Oklahoma farm, Amos and Molly and their three children are forced to find a new place to live.  They find their healing place in Texon, Texas, a small oil camp just east of Rankin.  It has everything they've been looking for, especially a welcoming community.  Then when WWII is on the horizon, their son-in-law is in the Army in the Philippines when Japan attacks, forcing the men and women there to finally surrender.  America is supplying the European front of the war first, and the Pacific is left without enough food, medicine, ammunition, or men to fight.  The men are forced to walk the Bataan Death March, and Jed eventually finds himself in Cabanatuan prison camp.  Addie, his wife, stays in Texon with her family.  Jed finds his healing place in the power of prayer.