Thanks Always Returns

Fiction & Literature, Poetry, Nonfiction, Family & Relationships
Cover of the book Thanks Always Returns by Thanks Always Returns, Thanks Always Returns
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Thanks Always Returns ISBN: 9781301696888
Publisher: Thanks Always Returns Publication: September 24, 2013
Imprint: Smashwords Edition Language: English
Author: Thanks Always Returns
ISBN: 9781301696888
Publisher: Thanks Always Returns
Publication: September 24, 2013
Imprint: Smashwords Edition
Language: English

Shalom is a creative intellectual who becomes world-weary and cynical from an early age. Sick of observing his family and those around him expecting Jesus to arrange easy atonement for coldness and cruelty, he seeks true redemption by agreeing to go to hell himself. The hell he experiences is revealed through life stories of his failure to bond with others, to enter the passionate romance he craves, and to bring peace to those he loves. Instead he brings them, and the reader, a unique perspective as he explores the rarely questioned cultural assumptions he finds at the root of his ongoing cynicism.

Among the many topics explored are the hidden costs of gender-role reversal, the superficial sanctimony rampant in both new age spirituality and organized religion, the futility of one-size-fits-all solutions, the worship of established authority in medicine, law, and other professions, and the deprecation and strictly-for-profit treatment of both the creative and the intellectual in modern society. Other thoughts thrown in, along the way, involve the courts, folk remedies, meditation tools, addictions, a unique grand unified theory, the relationship between software and life, the nature of faith, and more.

Can Shalom find the path to redemption that he has hoped would coincide with his life path? Insights come through a marriage that reinvents what two adults can mean to one another, through recognition of his place in a cycle of abuse that has haunted his family for generations, and through the pending arrival of a first child. As the verses draw to a close, he is left to contemplate how a shift in perspective -- from that of everyone's undesirable misfit to that of their patient and loving parent -- can change the world.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

Shalom is a creative intellectual who becomes world-weary and cynical from an early age. Sick of observing his family and those around him expecting Jesus to arrange easy atonement for coldness and cruelty, he seeks true redemption by agreeing to go to hell himself. The hell he experiences is revealed through life stories of his failure to bond with others, to enter the passionate romance he craves, and to bring peace to those he loves. Instead he brings them, and the reader, a unique perspective as he explores the rarely questioned cultural assumptions he finds at the root of his ongoing cynicism.

Among the many topics explored are the hidden costs of gender-role reversal, the superficial sanctimony rampant in both new age spirituality and organized religion, the futility of one-size-fits-all solutions, the worship of established authority in medicine, law, and other professions, and the deprecation and strictly-for-profit treatment of both the creative and the intellectual in modern society. Other thoughts thrown in, along the way, involve the courts, folk remedies, meditation tools, addictions, a unique grand unified theory, the relationship between software and life, the nature of faith, and more.

Can Shalom find the path to redemption that he has hoped would coincide with his life path? Insights come through a marriage that reinvents what two adults can mean to one another, through recognition of his place in a cycle of abuse that has haunted his family for generations, and through the pending arrival of a first child. As the verses draw to a close, he is left to contemplate how a shift in perspective -- from that of everyone's undesirable misfit to that of their patient and loving parent -- can change the world.

More books from Family & Relationships

Cover of the book We Are Not Alone by Thanks Always Returns
Cover of the book Ashley and Daniyyel's Amazing Adventure by Thanks Always Returns
Cover of the book Suegras by Thanks Always Returns
Cover of the book I Changed My Mind by Thanks Always Returns
Cover of the book Resilient Woman: Weaving Together Work, Family, and Self by Thanks Always Returns
Cover of the book Growing Free by Thanks Always Returns
Cover of the book Romantic Relationships ~ The Greatest Arena for Spiritual & Emotional Growth by Thanks Always Returns
Cover of the book Energy Work And Your Pagan Tot by Thanks Always Returns
Cover of the book Gay Erotica the Reunion by Thanks Always Returns
Cover of the book Her Brain Is Out To Screw You! The Men's Guide To Sex or Not Sex by Thanks Always Returns
Cover of the book Le mucche di Vijfsprong hanno le corna by Thanks Always Returns
Cover of the book Debunking the Bump by Thanks Always Returns
Cover of the book All the Good Ones Aren't Taken: Change the Way You Date and Find Lasting Love by Thanks Always Returns
Cover of the book The Wilderness of Grief by Thanks Always Returns
Cover of the book Qualification by Thanks Always Returns
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy