The Shack by William P. Young

The Shack

by William P. Young

After his daughter's murder, a grieving father confronts God with desperate questions -- and finds unexpected answers -- in this riveting and deeply moving #1 NYT bestseller.

When Mackenzie Allen Phillips's youngest daughter Missy is abducted during a family vacation, he remains hopeful that she'll return home. But then, he discovers evidence that she may have been brutally murdered in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness.

Four years later, in this midst of his great sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note that's supposedly from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment, he arrives on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change his life forever.

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Though the prose is pretty simple and straight forward this book is fascinating in suggesting paradigms of faith and Christianity that are foreign to our culture and society but are profoundly biblical. The mix of narrative and theological elements blend together well to give the reader a context of these ideas; people and faces and emotions to wrap around the abstract ideas and truths.

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