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The more victims are quiet, the less healing they will receive. What made you decide to write about it?įor that very reason. Because I didn’t grow up in that culture, my senses were heightened and I eventually began to really appreciate the differences.Ĭhildhood sexual abuse is not talked about very often, and seldom covered in novels. Because I was a stay-at-home mom and home schooling, I didn’t have much else to do there except to observe small town southern culture. When my last child was born, my husband was transferred to East Texas to start a department in a hospital. What made you choose East Texas as the setting for both novels? Characters have that uncanny way of taking your prose and running in all sorts of directions with it.

The book didn’t start out in my mind as a love story, but it evolved into it as I continued writing. What made you decide to write a love story? She has the privilege of many wiser people to mentor her through life. She lives in an entirely different culture. I wrestled through relationships in my teens with Maranatha’s twin feelings of revulsion and attraction. Like Maranatha, I wondered if I had been marked, that every sexual predator could “tell” I was a ready victim. Like Maranatha, I endured sexual abuse, but I was much younger when it happened. Like Maranatha, I felt like God had transformed my life in such a radical way (like her name change from Mara—bitter—to Maranatha—Come Lord Jesus). Maranatha has a lot to learn about life and love and relationships, just like the rest of us. I was one—wanting to have a boyfriend who would just hold me, and yet the moment one came near I ran a hundred miles away. There are lots of girls in that situation. Because she’s been sexually abused in the past, and she doesn’t have a strong father figure, she is drawn to boys and also repulsed by them. Maranatha is a seventeen-year-old southern girl who is confused, needy, hopeful, afraid, and tentative. How is the main character someone a teen audience can relate to? Because my personal story involves different instances of sexual abuse, I wanted to write a story that showed the reader how God could intersect an abuse-victim’s life and make a difference. In my mind I saw the streets of Burl and a girl who didn’t know where she came from. I started the first book, Watching the Tree Limbs, in a flurry. My passion is to write about redemption through the avenue of story.

This book deals with difficult subject matter: childhood sexual abuse and its residual affects.

Mary stoppedby to talk about writing, God, and a 17 year old girl who struggles with love, God, and frustrating relationships. Her current book, Wishing on Dandelions, a story of seventeen year old Marantha recovering her life after tragedy and abuse. We interrupt my regularly scheduled Gilmore Girls rant to welcome Mary DeMuth to the blog! Mary is a totally fab writer.