PositiveThe New York TimesIt is the most compelling recent example of how a word-of-mouth phenomenon can explode into a blockbuster when the momentum hits chain bookstores, and the marketing and distribution power of a major commercial publisher is thrown behind it ...the young daughter of the protagonist, Mack, is abducted. Four years later he visits the shack where evidence of the girl’s murder was discovered. He spends a weekend there in a kind of spiritual therapy session with God...The shack was a metaphor for “the house you build out of your own pain ... He chose to make God an African-American woman, he said, because he wanted to alter religious preconceptions ...brought God alive in a way that I think few books in literature ever do.
