Jacket Blurb: With GOD BLESS THE CHILD, this acclaimed novelist has turned his hand to nonfiction, producing a book as urgent as any headline, as raucous and bizarre as fiction ... Sue Hathorn had worked with--and for--abused children for almost twenty years. She dreamed of a special center for these children, but Sue had no money. Then she met Robert Malone, a professional gambler, whose nightly bingo games took in astronomical amounts of money that, under Mississippi law, had to be donated to charity. Then the real game began, for no sooner than Robert gave Sue a check for $6,000 than the Attorney General for the state of Mississippi raided Malone's Bingo Depot ...
Engrossing tale of the unlikely alliance of a tenacious child-worker and a professional gambler that reformed the treatment of abused children in Mississippi--Kirkus/November 1, 1993
If politics makes weird bedfellows, altruism makes even weirder alliances ... Some good deeds not only go unpunished--they are rewarded. It's stunning enough to silence a hundred yapping cynics--The Los Angeles Times/February 21, 1993
GOD BLESS THE CHILD is a triumph--in storytelling, in realization, in impact. But most of all it is a triumph of the human spirit--Mississippi Voices/Nov-Dec 1993