In Eight Days Author:Lawrence Liebling A winter night, an icy road, a sharp curve ahead... Slow down Jonathan... You re going way too fast... A womans voice he doesn t know warns Jonathan West seconds before the accident that sends his car and his life into a tailspin. He survives the crash determined to find the woman who tried to save him. — In the process, he endangers everything h... more »e holds dear, his marriage to Karen, his wife of 23 years, and the carefully crafted existence he has fashioned for himself as a husband, father and bookstore owner. The accident takes on a greater dimension as it reopens deep wounds from Jonathans childhood and the death of his older brother, Sam a tragedy for which Jonathan feels responsible.
His search becomes a larger quest for meaning and resolution. When Jonathan mysteriously stumbles on a book he believes belonged to the woman, he desperately turns to the Diary of Every Man for clues. And he finds in this ancient chronicle of Arya Ben Eliazer, the teacher Joshua, and the sinister Isaac, consumed by revenge, the most unexpected of discoveries... God, whom long ago the young Jonathan abandoned after his brother s death.
Yet, his spiritual reawakening also threatens to pull Jonathan and Karen even further apart. In this complex exploration of the power of God to heal and reveal, novelist Lawrence Liebling incorporates his skill as a storyteller with his knowledge of meditation as an experienced coach. Far from a traditionally religious book, this fictional tale of loss and love offers readers not only two intriguing mysteries set hundreds, even thousands, of years apart but insights into the essence of what guides each of us on our own journey through life.« less