Ralph Bland

When Jesus Came to the Cracker Barrel

Fiction

“There is fiction, and there is real-life fiction, and that second distinction is what makes Braswell’s stories so compelling to read. He is a master at bringing his characters to the reader’s eye in all their moments of upheaval, human frailty, spiritual insight, and unexpected kindness. His characters and themes become clear from the onset of his stories to the conclusions, because we have experienced these people and situations in our lives, but have often not noticed them until Michael Braswell’s craft brought them from obscurity into the light.”