"SINGING SONGS IN A STRANGE LAND: Anecdotes on Resilience” is a compilation of comments by ancestors, mentors, contemporaries and protégés of the Reverend Marjorie B. Lewis, PhD.   They are each unpacked through Spiritually based expositions providing instructions in resilience. 

The work is informed by the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) literature.  The gist of the ACE literary contribution is found in its predictive ability of behavioral outcomes longitudinally proven with over 20 years of data.  The devastating conclusion is that the higher and more consistent our ACE the lower our capacity to thrive in this country. 

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However, the literature is tempered by another body of literature addressing resiliency.  It proves that the impact of such adversities can be countered through, among other things, what a loving and supportive community provides in the form of intentional and more often unintentional advice as a course of everyday conversation.

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Such are the contents of this book which feature measured and more often off-handed responses to societal challenges, particularly to a US female citizen of African slave descent. 

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