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Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Author : Charles Martin
Genre : Fiction
Charles has written another poignant redemption story set around the true events in 1998 when Hurricane Mitch stalled over Nicaragua, filled the lake atop a dormant volcano called Las Casitas. The extra weight cracked the mantle and caused an eruption and mudslide traveling in excess of 100 miles per hour down the mountain toward the sea some thirty miles away. Water from my heart bubbled up and out of his experiences with these people.
The story begins with Charlie Finn, on his own at 16, and Harvard graduated. There he learns the art of profiting from the vices of others. He becomes a drug runner who keeps his personal relationships separate from his work. Eventually, at age 40, Â the two worlds collide, producing devastating consequences for those he loves. Searching for his friend’s son takes him to Nicaragua and the generations living after the hurricane devastation where he finds a way to heal his own hardened heart.
Hank spoke, “I know you’re here running for something or someone that hurt you, but you need to know that to the folks you meet, you’re like this bottle of water. Don’t let the pain of whatever or whoever hurt you bottle itself up inside. Everywhere on the face of this planet, water is life; you have that effect on people. They are drawn to it. They like the way it feels going down.”
“What struck me was a feeling of something in me coming clean. That ride bathed me in laughter, in moonlight, in my own tears, and in the singular and surprising thought that maybe my cold, dead, calloused heart wasn’t as cold and dead as I’d long believe it to be. The type of bath I needed—that my heart craved, that could wash off the stain of me—was not of water acquired from an external source, but water that rose up from a source on the inside.”
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