''Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together'', published in June 2006, is a book co-written by
Ron Hall and
Denver Moore, with
Lynn Vincent, telling about Hall's and Moore's intersecting life journeys. It was published by
Thomas Nelson. Moore grew up as a
sharecropper on a
plantation
A plantation is an agricultural estate, generally centered on a plantation house, meant for farming that specializes in cash crops, usually mainly planted with a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on. The ...
in
Red River Parish, Louisiana
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. He lived through years of hardship and
homelessness but changed both his and others' lives after meeting Hall, who was volunteering at a shelter.
Plot synopsis
Ron Hall is a rich international art dealer in Texas. Although not enjoying the same paycheck size as that of his clients', he is invited into their sphere. He and his wife Deborah have two children, Reagen and Carson—the first of which, once she hit high school, "shunned anything that smacked of wealth, and yearned to be a freedom fighter in South Africa." After an affair that Ron has, he and Deborah attend marriage counseling and forge a strong bond. So much so, that when Deborah decides to help out at a homeless shelter, Ron agrees to go, hopeful that Deborah will change her mind. Soon, Ron gets excited about it too—and, not without Deborah's urging, forms a friendship with Denver, a man whom all homeless people and people on the streets are terrified of. This book is a chronology of their friendship, Deborah's battle with cancer, and how the love of God is at work, changing lives.
Popularity and reviews
The book was #11 on the January 9, 2009
The New York Times Best Seller list
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for paperback non-fiction. It has shipped a total of at least 300,000 copies.
"Same Kind of Different as Me"
, Earned Media
Characters
* Denver Moore, a homeless man who "by his wisdom esaved the city" (Ecclesiastes 9:15)
* Ron Hall, an international art dealer
* Deborah Hall, wife of Ron Hall, spiritual woman (like Proverbs 31), and minister to the homeless/poor
* Mary Ellen Davenport, friend to the Halls
* Sister Bettie, spiritual woman and minister to the homeless/poor
References
External links
Same Kind of Different as Me website
2006 non-fiction books
Books about friendship
Non-fiction books adapted into films
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