He enforces strict rules on everyone-for example, women can’t cut their hair, and he dictates what happens with the mandatory taxes, or fines, collected. Herman lost his son and his friends in a war, and he founded the church as punishment for his own survival. She begins to wonder if there’s anything more to life than the church's domination and fear instilled by its leader, her grandfather, Herman Langston. However, now she’s fifteen and starts to question the rules of her fundamentalist Christian society and her place in it. Ninah worries about what the Rapture means and does everything she can to make sure she gets to Heaven. Her life revolves around being a good and dutiful daughter and Christian while waiting for the Rapture, or when the good go to Heaven and the damned endure horrible lives on Earth. She’s a member of the Church of Fire and Brimstone and God’s Almighty Baptizing Wind. The narrative is told in the first person by the protagonist, fifteen-year-old Ninah. She teaches creative writing and literature classes at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, where she’s the Ruth and Perry Morgan Chair of Southern Literature. Reynolds is a New York Times bestselling author who specializes in Southern contemporary fiction. The novel also depicts Ninah's attempts to avoid the temptation of her handsome prayer partner and the inevitable chaos caused when she falls pregnant. It tells the story of Ninah, a teenaged girl struggling to live within a strict religious community. The Rapture of Canaan, published in 1995 by Berkley Books, is the second novel of author Sheri Reynolds.
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