What really happened in the Garden of Eden? How did humans live ten thousand years ago? In this story, set a thousand years after Adam and Eve were exiled from Eden, Elwin's family learned to scratch food and clothing from the earth, develop tools, customs, and laws, and find selfishness and lust in themselves as well as generosity and courage. They walked a long trek to find their origins, fought to save their families, invented writing to decipher an ancient stone, and learned from it that their Maker would return someday to redeem their hopes.
Skylab astronaut Kerwin's Finding Eden starts as speculative prehistoric fiction, quickly turns into a murder mystery, and evolves into a mix of adventure story, theological meditation and musings on the early days of humanity. The story compels the reader through the book, and the philosophical discussions linger even after it's been put down.