Then Sings My Soul is a gritty, humorous, and ultimately loving story of a family shaken to the core by the death of their father.
Cora and her children continue to struggle seven years after their father was killed during the D-Day invasion. Cora works two jobs in the oil town of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Shes a waitress at the refinery diner and on her off days is employed as a domestic. Her eldest, Josh, works for the railroad by day and dreams of a baseball career at night. Her second son, Bobby, has just graduated high school and taken a job at a filling station. Sarah, only fourteen, goes to school, takes care of the home and looks after her six-year-old sister, Jonda.
As her children spiral out of control, Cora undergoes a dreadful experience that could wreck the only thing she has lefther faith.
And so begins one of the most captivating and enthralling stories you will ever read.
About the author
Phil Smith is a fanatical baseball fan whose office is wall-to-wall with old baseball memorabilia worth practically nothing. During his life he has worked as a sacker in a grocery store, night clerk at a funeral home, lumber man, janitor, security guard, computer operator, assembly line worker, letter carrier, soldier in the US army, and high school softball and basketball coach. He is currently employed as a professor of American history at Tulsa Community College. He is still married to the girl he began dating at the age of sixteen, and together they have two children.