The Shack
A father’s devastating loss opens into a searching, emotionally intense encounter with faith and doubt.
- Themes
- Grief and loss, Faith and questions about God, Child abduction and suspected murder
Faith Under Strain
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- A grieving father’s urgent questions about God and suffering
- Faith-centered fiction that faces grief without easy answers
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- A story rooted in grief, spiritual questions, and the possibility of change
- A dark premise handled with a deeply moving tone
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After his daughter's murder, a grieving father confronts God with desperate questions in this riveting and deeply moving #1 New York Times bestselling book turned Major Motion Picture with over 25 million book copies sold.
When Mackenzie Allen Phillips's youngest daughter Missy is abducted during a family vacation, he remains hopeful that she'll return home.
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But then, he discovers evidence that she may have been brutally murdered in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness.
Four years later, in this midst of his great sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note that's supposedly from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment, he arrives on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change his life forever.
Publisher details
Publisher categories
- Visionary Fiction
- Christian Suspense
- Contemporary Christian Fiction
- Authors
- William P. Young
- Publisher
- Hachette Nashville
- Published
- July 1, 2008
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Visionary Fiction