The Shack is a Christian novel by William P. Young, published in 2007. Written in 2005, "my only goal was to get copied and bound at Kinko's in time for Christmas as a gift to my kids." Until The Shack sales soared, he was a manufacturer's representative for a technology company by day and did website design work on the side. But he had always been a writer, he says, who gave poems and stories as gifts. He wrote the book to explain his own harrowing journey through pain and misery to "light, love and transformation" in God to his six children, ages 14 to 27. Eleven years ago, Young says, he was hanging on by a thread, haunted by his history as a victim of sexual abuse, by his own adulterous affair, by a life of shame and pain, all stuffed deep in his psyche. "The shack" was what he called the ugly place inside where everything awful was hidden away. The book is about confronting evil and stripping the darkness away to reveal a loving God within, he says. I just bought it and could not put it down until the last page. Great fiction, good for the heart!
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Just finished it this morning. Agree with Bro. E's comments...author paints an amazing picture of God.
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