Excerpt from It's Easier to Reach Heaven Than the End of the Street by Emma Williams, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

And the why? The layers of complication and interpretation, and the flow of hate and love in this land, and a vengeful God sitting somewhere in the middle, and Peter’s question, how to get out, unanswered, and the block on doing anything to sort it out because — well, just because.

But it doesn’t help to get angry.

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