About This Book
The roadsign could have read, "Just another American town." In this novel, a cross between Thorton Wilder's Our Town and C. S. Lewis's Screwtape Letters, Elva McAllaster paints the spiritual portrait of a small American town. Strettam may seem like a sleepy little berg as you drive by on Highway 37, but it is a battleground where lives - and souls - are ultimately lost or won. The people of Strettam are strangely familiar; they experience the same temptations, loves, hates, failures, and desires that all of us do. But only the reader can go behind the scenes to see the workings of the Seven Deputies ( the sins of Pride, Envy, Wrath, Sloth, Covetousness, Gluttony, and Lechery) as a fight for the souls of the townspeople and battle Tom, George, and Dave - the town's three ministers who meet at Joe's Diner to plan their spiritual strategy. Strettam is realistic, Urbain, entertaining, touching, and always challenging, for Elva McAllaster is one of those masterly writers who, by telling a story, did tell us even more about ourselves. --- from book's back cover
