Book Review: Larimer Street

 

Larimer Street

by Timothy Browne

Pub Date 01 Dec 2021 | Archive Date 30 Nov 2021

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 Christian  |  Historical Fiction

I am reviewing a copy of Larimer Street through Books Go Social, and NetGalley:

Larimer Street is based on the true story of Jim Goodheart, the founder of The Sunshine Rescue Street mission.  It is a triumphant  and epic tale of one man’s courage and redemption through his weaknesses and failures. There is power in going through—in surviving. And in the final analysis, losing some battles but winning the war.

The year is 1907, Larimer Street, Denver Jim Goodheart, a tall and handsome man, loses everything.  Staggering in drunkenness and desperation on a dark night in November, he decides to drink a bottle of carbolic acid and make room in the world for a better man. Jim stumbles onto the doorstep of the rescue mission on Larimer Street, Denver’s skid row.

Despite Jim Goodheart’s life long battle battle with alcoholism, and by divine redemption, he becomes known as the captivating leader of the Sunshine Rescue Mission.   Throughout the First World War and the Spanish Flu epidemic the mission serves the destitute in an era without safety nets or social programs.

The pain of the First World War and his personal war against alcoholism brings him to the point of losing it all again, except his loving wife, Ada, and his faith. Larimer Street is a story of courage and redemption. It is not a story of Jim’s success over his challenges, but a story of triumph through his weaknesses and failures.

I give Larimer Street five out of five stars!

Happy Reading!