A heartbreaking tale that never loses sight of hope, or our remarkable ability to access and claim our own resilience. Poignant and riveting, Myths of a Merciful God takes us on the unforgettable journey of one woman's quest to overcome unimaginable loss. At the heart of the story is a profoundly difficult question: How does one come back from a tragedy as unspeakable as the death of a child? Through the literal and figurative journey upon which Sarah embarks in the aftermath of this loss, and the people she encounters along the way, Myths of a Merciful God explores the concepts of divine retribution and intervention versus the gaping silence of an indifferent universe, moral turpitude versus the virtue of well-kept secrets, and whether religion - or its absence - helps, hinders, or makes no difference in one's ability to find a way back toward wholeness.

Myths of a Merciful God

Literature & Fiction

Ceilan, Cynthia

Contemporary

Little Feather Books, Inc.

Poignant, riveting, full of rage and beauty, Myths of a Merciful God takes us on the unforgettable journey of one woman's quest to overcome unimaginable loss. At the heart of the story is a profoundly difficult question: How does one survive a tragedy as unspeakable as the death of a child? Through the literal and figurative journey upon which this child's mother embarks in the aftermath of this loss, and the people she encounters along the way, Myths of a Merciful God explores the concepts of divine retribution and intervention versus the gaping silence of an indifferent universe, moral turpitude versus the virtue of well-kept secrets, and whether the absence of religion in a person's life helps, hinders, or makes no difference in one’s ability to find a way back toward wholeness.

Women's Fiction

Little Feather Books

Sarah Miranda is a strong,independent, single mother who is brought to her knees by one of life's most unimaginable losses: the accidental death of her child. Compounding this tragedy are the circumstances surrounding the birth of her little girl, as well as Sarah's own troubled past. Through the literal and figurative journey upon which Sarah embarks in the aftermath of this tragic loss, and the people she encounters along the way, Myths of a Merciful God explores the concept of divine retribution and intervention versus the gaping silence of an indifferent universe. "To be sure," says author, Cynthia Ceilán, "no one ever emerges from tragedy and loss to resume life as it was before. We are changed every day, in big ways and small, by the events that transpire from one minute to the next, from one hour to another. Every decision we make between the dawn and the twilight of any ordinary day determines who we become--and shows us what we're really made of--in all the days that follow one extraordinary moment." Despite the sad genesis of Sarah's story, it is a tale that never loses sight of hope, or our remarkable ability to access and claim our own resilience. [Book Discussion Guide included in this edition.]

Literary

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Nothing makes you want to embrace the quiet loveliness of life's ordinary moments more than the prospect of a spectacularly dumb death. Consider the fates of these unwitting headline-makers:
<ul>
<li>Betty Stobbs, an elderly shepherdess who rode her motorbike up the hill to feed her charges, was run off the road and into a ravine by her own stampeding herd of hungry sheep.</li>
<li>Cornell University senior Terrence Quinn got drunk one night and climbed into the chimney of the Sigma Alpha Mu frat house. He was discovered when his shoes and pants dropped into the fireplace after someone opened the flue. He had been dead for at least three days.</li>
<li>Boro Mandic not only survived a horrific car crash, but walked away without a scratch. Doctors declared it a miracle. On the walk home from the hospital, he was run over by a train.</li>
</ul>In the tradition of Thinning the Herd: Tales of the Weirdly Departed, Ceilán's latest collection of true stories offers another shamelessly irreverent romp through the unenviable final adventures of some of the world's unluckiest stiffs.

Unlucky Stiffs: New Tales Of The Weirdly Departed

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

LYONS PRESS+

Thinning the Herd: Tales Of The Weirdly Departed

Maybe how we meet our end is just random circumstance, or maybe it's more deliberately Darwinian, with death sorting out the gene pool in its own inimitable fashion. After centuries on this earth we humans still aren't any closer to discovering the facts of death, but it continues to fascinate and perplex us. In this compendium of real-life anecdotes and observations regarding death (you know, that thing that only happens to other people) you'll discover why we'll never know what Albert Einstein's last words were, which celebrities' phobias proved to be justified, and how a dead jockey managed to win a horse race. As George Bernard Shaw sagely observed, 'Life does not cease to be funny when people die.' He died in 1950 at the age of ninety-four, when he fell out of an apple tree.

Thinning the Herd: Tales of the Weirdly Departed

Humor & Satire

Michael O'Mara Books, Limited

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Myths of a Merciful God

Myths of a Merciful God

Myths of a Merciful God

Unlucky Stiffs: New Tales Of The Weirdly Departed

Thinning the Herd: Tales of the Weirdly Departed