Long Walk Up
Childhood journey from tragedy to triumph
“However long the night, the dawn will break.”
African Proverb
“Long Walk Up breathes life into the resiliency of the African spirit. Through Turney, Mulukan easily leaves the pages and enters our hearts. You too will be encouraged to take the Long Walk Up.”
Yaba A. Blay
Temple University Department of African American Studies
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“Mulakan, child of Africa, orphaned without mother, father, and left without siblings, triumphs over the rocky terrain of her solo journey. Long Walk Up is a poignant story of survival.”
Dr. Maxine Thompson, Butterfly Press
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“Starting with her first book, Portia, and continuing with her latest effort, Long Walk Up, Denise Turney's literary expressiveness and dedication to the written word is evident. Long Walk Up is sure to be a bestseller.”
Ron Kavanaugh, Mosaicbooks.com
“Anyone who trusts in him will never be put to shame.” – Romans 10: 11
Long Walk Up
by Denise Turney
Copyright 2011 Denise Turney
Published in eBook format by eBookIt.com
Scriptures are taken from the
New International Version of the Bible.
Copyright 1985, Zondervan Corporation
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review or article, without written permission from the author or publisher.
Cover: Morris Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-1-4566-0259-8
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2006931733
Dedication
For my son.
I love you, Gregory –
and for all those who have gathered courage, and who are, even now, walking up
Acknowledgements
Appreciation to the source of all eternal creations.
Thank you to my family. My father, Richard Turney. My mother, Doris Jean. My son, Gregory. My grandparents, Clyde and Emma Turney. My great-grandmother Rebecca Skinner. My brothers, Richard, Clark and Eric. My sister – Adrianne. My nephew and nieces, Richard, Angel, Assyria, Samaria, Megan, and John. My aunts, Christine and Pat. My uncle Donald. My great-aunt Ruby. My cousins Donna, Monica, Michael and Langston. Thank you for a foundation of love.
To my friends and supporters. To those who read, support and enjoy my books. To my church family, Norton Avenue First Baptist Church in Bristol, Pennsylvania where the Rev. James G. Evans III and his beautiful wife Sheila pastor. To my Sigma Gamma Rho sorors. To Tim and Essie Stackhouse, a woman who God used to allow the story of Ruth and Naomi to work itself into my own life. To Helen Crawford (I’ll never forget you walking around the corner those many times just to see how I was doing). To Cormy L. Williams, one of the sweetest women I know. To Willie J. Murray – thank you for the sweet potato pies you made my son. To Mary Lambert, thank you for sound Sunday School lessons.
To Long Walk Up’s editor, Susan Bono – Thank you for sharing your skill and expertise. To everyone who has touched my life in a special way, thank you for your love and support.
Be courageous and take the Long Walk Up! --
Denise
Long Walk Up is a work of fiction. Although the book was read by peoples who have lived in Africa and although the author researched many facts about various customs and regions in the magnificent continent, particularly East Africa, the book is not based upon any single tribe or community within Africa, a place which may perhaps be the mother of all nations. Names to some places in the continent have been fictionalized. That said, the truths about the struggle, a child’s destiny and the limitless power of love are real. And it is with the spirit concealed within these immeasurable truths that we bid you to begin the Long Walk Up.
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