CFBA Review ~ The Last Day
My Thoughts:
I absolutely loved this book! As soon as I turned the last page, I let my husband know I was done so he could start reading it. I can best sum up this book with a whole string of adjectives...beautiful, insightful, riveting, heart breaking, inspiring, unforgettable. And it really is all those things, and so much more! Definitely, definitely, definitely read this book!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
James Landis lives in New Hampshire.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Warren Harlan Pease, the young narrator of this spellbinding novel, returns to his native New Hampshire from the Iraq War and spends an entire day with Jesus visiting and contemplating hi own life with fresh eyes, and a willing heart. He examines his relationships to those he loves─his girlfriend, his best friend, his father, his dead mother, his daughter ─ and grapples with the pain he has been carrying since the death of his mother when he was still a boy.While in Iraq, armed with his sniper’s ‘s rifle and his deeply held faith, Specialist Pease traveled across ideological borders and earned an appreciation for his enemy’s culture and for what connect us all as human beings. He also learned how to kill and taught others to do the same. “War doesn’t test your faith in Jesus,” Warren comes to realize. “It tests your faith in yourself.” The Last Day answers some questions and asks many more. It’s a powerful meditation on religion and war, love and loss.
This work of compassion and healing grace will resonate with skeptics and believers, be shared and discussed between friends and among families. It is a book for our time, and forever.
If you would like to read an excerpt from Chapter one of , go HERE
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