One Day in January: In Agra, the City of Love
Author Cecil Holt takes you halfway around the world and through the whole gamut of emotions involved in a truly wondrous love story about a boy seemingly taking the wrong road while living in a small town in Virginia, who is saved by a passing missionary offering him a trip to India. For some strange reason a gnawing inside of him leads him to accept the offer. He leaves behind his unhappy childhood, his current girlfriend, and his comfortable existence for the adventure of another continent.He meets a girl in a slum before returning home. He cannot forget her and during a second trip to India, love blossoms, despite opposition and hypocrisy from family and supposed friends on both continents. The journey takes in the desperation of life in a slum, the magnificent beauty of the Taj Mahal, a seemingly lost love, the tragedy of a lost child, and the events of 9/11. 219 pages.
