Having brought peace to the strife-torn Middle East in his last
outing, Joshua and the Holy Land (1993), the mysterious Joshua
returns to set his sights on an even more challenging task:
reforming that Sodom-and-Gomorrah-on-the-Hudson - New York City.
Joshua arrives, and as he walks up Broadway he encounters a young
runaway named Charlene who has turned to prostitution. In the wink
of an eye, he frees her from her pimp and convinces her that she
should give up life on the streets and return to school. Continuing
on with his new convert, Joshua enters Central Park, where he meets
a woman who suffers from incipient Alzheimer's. One touch and she
too is cured - and she agrees to adopt Charlene and send her to a
suburban boarding school. Walking on alone, Joshua emerges on the
far end of the park in Harlem. He plays basketball with a group of
African-American youths who touch him with their good hearts and
lack of hope. He begins teaching them the skills to start their own
businesses, but, of course, it's not enough. Fortunately, the
husband of the senility victim he healed is a wealthy developer,
who out of gratitude now agrees to buy up and redevelop the entire
neighborhood. Joshua's greatest miracle, though, is that in all
this urban renewal no one is displaced. And so it goes: As the
development project proceeds, Joshua roams about doing good,
helping a mother's drug-addicted son, comforting a dying AIDS
patient, battling the evil influences of the occult, fighting Satan
in the guise of the mercurial Lucius Fabian, all the while spouting
ever higher platitudes like a politician on a bad day. More blandly
inspirational fare for Girzone's rather sizable readership. (Kirkus
Reviews)
The fourth installment in the Joshua series, "Joshua and the City"
reaches some encouraging and very important conclusions. In an
urban community where poverty, senseless violence, racism, and AIDS
seem like insurmountable problems, Joshua manages to sow seeds of
renewal with his words of love. He reaches out to every person with
transforming openness, showing how to regenerate the city and bring
about undreamed-of economic revitalization.
Yet many other problems remain that money cannot help. And it is,
most importantly, to these that Joshua addresses his healing
message. In a world of despairing doubt, "Joshua and the City
"gives the reader hopeful answers that lead toward peace and
understanding.
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