Bobby Ray Simmons

A fiction-inspirational novel based on a true story, Lawson Tillman of Brown Mountain will have you totally engrossed. This intense and gripping story about a family living as sharecroppers on a tobacco farm in a southern community called Brown Mountain is filled with the ups and downs and stresses and struggles of the late 1950s to the early 70s.

Tattered by the external influences of racial exclusion and shady communal mores, the Tillmans see little hope in ever evolving from their binding fate. But young Lawson, who is horribly beaten at the age of two, finds courage and an urgency to move beyond his seemingly broken life through the image of a beautiful young girl named Renee’. Renee’ became a rescuing angel that unknowingly led Lawson out of his downward spiral of personal decay.

The Lawson Tillman of Brown Mountain story offers a riveting saga of a family inching its way out of sustained hardship as it faces uncompromising external and internal odds.