Bøger af Michael Kimball

Love Hurts, that's why we need to laugh about it. Featuring 21 irreverent, charming, quirky, honest, and downright hilarious stories, this collection is sure to delight and remind readers that love is a journey, and we are not alone.

Jesse Whitestone, a heartbroken widower, is offered a supernatural chance at changing the past and saving his late wife while simultaneously meeting and being attracted to Savannah-a sweet, smart, green-eyed blonde who loves veggie pizza. The novel explores a question pondered by many: If I could change the past, would I? For Jesse, the question isn't rhetorical. His wife, Ellen, drowned in Stillman's Lake while the couple were celebrating their sixth anniversary. The trauma leads to soul-searching; a struggle to make sense of what strikes Jesse as senseless. Now, three years later, Jesse is given a chance to go back and change the events of that fateful day when he finds himself lured into the portals room, the fantastic, other-worldly domain of Tsor whose identity is, for a time, a mystery. It is in the portals room that Tsor offers Jesse an opportunity to change the past, to undo the worst day of his life by rescuing Ellen. Is there a God that can be trusted with the grief and pain associated with such inexplicable loss or should Jesse take Tsor up on his offer and seize the opportunity to control his own destiny?

Provides a path that invites readers to not only face, but actually embrace culture shock. The publication uses popular culture metaphors throughout to apply concepts and scenarios to real-life.

A remarkable first novel about a journey across America and the effects of grief and loss on a family that is trying to stay together when everything is falling apart.This is the way the family got away. They pack all the things they can fit into the car and place the body of their dead brother in the toy box and put him in the boot. They leave Mineola, Texas and head across the terrifying, vacant landscape of Mid-America. In every place they visit, they sell off what they can to make it to the next town. They keep going to keep the family together.Michael Kimball's remarkable The Way The Family Got Away is the story of the journey seen through the eyes of the family's surviving children, a young boy and his younger sister. They try to make sense of death; why they must leave home and how they get from one place to the next. It is an extraordinary study of the effects of grief upon language and the ways that loss makes itself felt through a child's imagination.