The Miracle: A Visionary Novel

by Michael Gurian

From bestselling author Michael Gurian comes a spiritual thriller
that will change the way you look at the world forever.
The car crash that killed Jeffrey, a child of prophecy, was a dreadful tragedy. But for the twelve witnesses to this terrible moment it was an incident that set off a string of spiritual awakenings and inexplicable miracles that would forever transform their lives. For Beth Carey and the others, including a serial murderer who calls himself the Light Killer, the events of that late-summer evening pulled back the veil that separates life and death. Though all witnessed the same doorway of light open over the dying boy's body, only Beth will discover the invisible world that binds all human life together. As she evolves into the "new human" forecast centuries ago by St. Teresa of Avila, and as the Light Killer confronts inner storms of human evil, forty-eight hours of miracles reveal the poignant faces of human vulnerability, and the hidden face of God.
Vivid, often breathtaking, The Miracle is part old-fashioned mystery, part new-age revelation. A fascinating and dramatic look at the subtle links between all life, it offers an answer to the greatest mystery of them all.

320 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Michael Gurian is an American author and social philosopher. He works as a marriage and family counselor and corporate consultant. He has published twenty-eight books, several of which were New York Times bestseller list bestsellers. He is considered, along with Leonard Sax, as one of the major proponents of the post-modern "single-sex academic classes" movement.
Gurian taught at Gonzaga University, Eastern Washington University, and Ankara University. His work tends to focus on sex differences and how they contribute to learning.
He is also a co-founder of the Gurian Institute, which trains professionals who deal with the developmental aspects of childhood. The Gurian Institute has trained more than 60,000 teachers from over 2,000 different schools. Some of these schools become "GI Model Schools" and aim to leverage the role gender plays in learning styles.

Reviews

[Deb Booth · Rating 1 out of 5]

Great premise, a few bits of brilliance, and incomprehensible gibberish in other areas. Clunky prose, and a surprising lack of proofreading/ editing -and whatever happened to punctuation? Commas, people, commas. Such a disappointment.

[Robbe Sipe · Rating 1 out of 5]

Poorly written, too many characters with only a cursory backstory given, I had to make up a crib sheet. Flat characters, especially the mother
Interesting from the point of view of the perpetrator, since the author is a psychologist
Good sense of place and time, application of magical realism

[Pat · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found the story content interesting although a bit dragged out.
It gave me a feeling the author was trying too hard to make it
spiritual in nature.