WHERE TRAGEDY CONFRONTS ETERNITY
Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his "Great Sadness," Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend.
Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack's world forever.
In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant "The Shack" wrestles with the timeless question, "Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?" The answers Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as much as it did him. You'll want everyone you know to read this book!
"When the imagination of a writer and the passion of a theologian cross-fertilize the result is a novel on the order of The Shack. This book has the potential to do for our generation what John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress did for his. It's that good!"
-Eugene Peterson
"The Shack is the most absorbing work of fiction I've read in many years. My wife and I laughed, cried and repented of our own lack of faith along the way. The Shack will leave you craving for the presence of God."
-Michael W. Smith, Recording Artist
"Finally! A guy-meets-God novel that has literary integrity and spiritual daring. The Shack cuts through the cliches of both religion and bad writing to reveal something compelling and beautiful about life's integral dance with the divine.This story reads like a prayer- like the best kind of prayer, filled with sweat and wonder and transparency and surprise. If you read one work of fiction this year, let this be it."
-Mike Morrell, Zoecarnate.com
"Reading The Shack during a very difficult transition in my life, this story has blown the door wide open to my soul."
-Wynonna Judd, Recording Artist
"While reading The Shack I realized the questions unfolding in this captivating novel were questions I was carrying deep within me. The beauty of this book is not that it supplies easy answers to grueling questiongs, but that it invites you to come in close to a God of mercy and love, in whom we find hope and healing."
-Jim Palmer, author of Divine Nobodies
"The Shack is a one of a kind invitation to journey to the very heart of God. Through my tears and cheers, I have been indeed transformed by the tender mercy with which William Paul Young opened the veil that too often separated me from God and from myself. With every page, the complicated do's and don't that distort a relationship into a religion were washed away as I understood Father, Son, and Spirit for the first time in my life."
-Patrick M. Roddy, Emmy Award winning producer for ABC News
"Wrapped in creative brilliance, The Shack is spiritually profound, theologically enlightening and life impacting. It has my highest recommendation. We are joyfully giving copies away by the case."
-Steve Berger, pastor at Grace Chapel Leipers Fork
"An exceptional piece of writing that ushers you directly into the heart and nature of God in the midst of agonizing human suffering. This amazing story will challenge you to consider the person and the plan of God in more expansive terms that you may have ever dreamed."
-David Gregory, author of Dinner with a Perfect Stranger
"If there's a better book out there capturing God's engaging nature and his ability to crawl into our darkest nightmare with His love, light and healing, I've not seen it. For the most ardent beliver or newest spiritual seeker, The Shack is a must-read."
- Wayne Jacobsen, author of He Loves Me: Learning to Live in the Father's Affection
"If God is all powerful and full of love, why doesn't He do something about the pain and evil in our world? This book answers that age old question with startling creativity and staggering clarity. By far one of the best books I have ever read."
-James Ryle, author of Hippon In the Garden
"Riveting, with twists that defy your expections while teaching powerful tehological lessons without patronizing. I was crying by page 100. You cannot read it without your heart becoming involved."
-Gayle E. Erwin, author of The Jesus Style
"The book goes beyond being the well written suspenseful page-turner that it is. Since the death of our son Jason the Lord has led us to a small number of life-changing books and this one heads the list. When you close the back cover you will be changed."
-Dale Lang, (rockcanada.org), father of student killed in Columbine copycat shooting
"The Shack is a beautiful story of how God comes to find us in the midst of our sorrows, trapped by disappointments, betrayed by our own presumptions. He never leaves us where He finds us, unless we insist."
-Wes Yoder, Ambassador Speakers Bureau
"You will be captivated by the creativity and imagination of The Shack, and before you know it you'll be experiencing God as never before. William Young's insights are not just captivating,they are biblically faithful and true. Don't miss this transforming story of grace."
-Greg Albrechet, Editor, Plain Truth Magazine
"Your work is a masterpiece! There are tears in my eyes and a lump in my throat. All I can think of is the others that need to read your words and I'm just as convinced that each one that reads it has those who also need your words."
-Chyril Walker, Ph.D.
"The Shack is like standing by the ocean, closing your eyes and breathing deeply, filling your lungs with purity after choking for so long on the stifling smog of religiosity. At times I had tears in my eyes, and others I was laughing out loud."
-Dale Bruneski, corrections counselor (Canada)
WILLIAM P. YOUNG was born a Canadian and raised among a stone-age tribe by his missionary parents in the highlands of what was New Guinea. He suffered great loss as a child and young adult, and now enjoys the 'wastefulness of grace' with his family in the Pacific Northwest.
