Mayas: I picked this book up thinking it was literary fiction. I wasn’t ready for it to read me back.
Jake’s struggle his guilt, his exhaustion, his yearning to do right it felt like my own. After my divorce, I thought I’d moved past regret, but reading this, I realized we never really do. We just learn to live with the ache.
Grace’s suffering cut deep. She reminded me of my daughter during her dark teenage years so fragile, yet so full of light. I had to stop more than once because it hit too close.
This story doesn’t preach, but it reaches right into your chest. It’s about how love costs us everything and why it’s still worth paying.
Jan Notzon wrote like he’s been in the desert of guilt and grace himself. I don’t think you can write this book unless you’ve walked through hell and found God waiting on the other side.