**PUBLICATION DATE: JUNE 22, 2014*
The Body of This, by Andrew McNabb: Wiseblood Books is thrilled to re-publish The Body of This--first published in 2009--with five additional stories and an introduction by Katy Carl. An elderly couple finally discovers the essence of each other after a lifetime together; a Sudanese immigrant uncovers the beauty in the simplicity of a new way home; a seminarian adrown in Guinness questions his calling; an eccentric muses on the existence of a prayer to a wound. These are but a few of the storylines in Andrew McNabb's ethereal debut story collection, The Body of This.
With award-winning stories previously published in such esteemed and diverse literary venues as The Missouri Review and Not Safe, But Good (Thomas Nelson,) The Body of This is an exploration of beginnings and endings, of architecture, the human body and what comes next. McNabb is the rare writer capable of combining the literary with the spiritual, and one of a handful of today's emerging writers to watch.
"The Body of This is a tough little bundle of shards that can as easily cut and make you bleed as it can reflect the one true light...Andrew McNabb is a brave storyteller." -Bret Lott, author of Oprah's Book Club pick, Jewel
"Andrew McNabb's thought-jabbing vignettes can be as radically transforming as viniculture, turning the water of everyday experience into the wine of life." -Joseph Pearce, author, The Quest for Shakespeare

The Body of This

McNabb, Andrew

Literature & Fiction

Wiseblood Books

***OFFICIAL PUBLICATION DATE: SEPTEMBER 18, 2014***
“I have lived an American life not unlike many others. I was raised in the suburbs by loving parents.
I was a good, but not exceptional, student. I played sports and had friends and did the sometimes-smart, but oftentimes-foolish things that teenagers do. I went to college. I got a job. I got a better job. I changed careers. I fell in love. I got married. My wife and I had children. We are raising them the best we can, and not unlike the way we were raised. Life is good.
. . . [But] in my life of recognizable broad strokes, of familiar small moments, something quite unusual and remarkable did happen to me: on the morning of November 2nd, 2011, All Souls Day, God visited me.”
So begins the prologue of Andrew McNabb’s memoir, Eight Days, his recounting of the ecstatic mystical religious experiences that took place in his life over an eight day period in 2011. With literary attention, this career short-story writer, husband, and father of four details how he was swept up into a place “not quite here” and “not quite there,” a place in which he experienced both the ethereal and the terrifying, the awe-inspiring and the confounding.
“Over these eight days,” he writes, “in addition to direct ecstatic union with the individual members of the Blessed Trinity, I was given key spiritual insights and illuminations, and was witness to awe-inspiring divine manipulations of both nature and humanity . . . [but] perhaps most disturbingly, in addition to all the good, I was also given an awareness of the real presence of evil—and even interaction with it.” McNabb’s experiences are often thought to be the exclusive domain of medieval saints. While the author admits he is far from saintly, his account provides crucial insight into—and perhaps even an answer to—the most important question ever asked: Does God exist?
Published here under the same cover is Virtue, Andrew McNabb’s book-length prose poem, or “mystical prayer.” These two works are inextricably linked; as he details in Eight Days, it was at the very moment that McNabb typed the period which would end Virtue that his odyssey began in emphatic fashion.
Virtue is a paean, a poetic and prayerful work that seeks, also, to be instructive by way of a logical progression which culminates, ultimately, at that highest point on the spiritual mountain: union with Him in true love.
Andrew McNabb grew up in Massachusetts, and is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and New York University. He is the author of The Body of This, a critically acclaimed short-story collection. He lives in Portland, Maine.
Divine Providence Press www.divineprovidencepress.com

Eight Days & Virtue

Religion & Spirituality

Divine Providence Press

Walking with Father Vincent is a montage of anecdotes, clippings, thoughts and insights centering around the remarkable life of Father Vincent McNabb, OP, (d. 1943), an Irishman from Portaferry, County Down, and perhaps the best-known Dominican Friar of the twentieth century. A fixture on the streets of London for decades, Father Vincent was an ascetic and a prophet, a theologian and a writer, a teacher and a preacher, a debater and a Thomist and, to many, quite simply a saint. Yes, Father Vincent was unusual-in holiness, in learning, in love, and even in appearance. G. K. Chesterton said of him "nobody who ever met or saw or heard Father McNabb has ever forgotten him." 
Written in brief, readable segments by Father Vincent's great-grandnephew, an American Lay Dominican and writer, who infuses his own experiences and gives great insight into the role of family-the McNabb family, and the family in general-Walking with Father Vincent details a remarkable life, while presenting remedies for some of our contemporary problems. Through the vehicle of Father Vincent's legendary walking, the author invites the reader to accompany them both, as he highlights the timeless truth and prophetic insight his uncle preached about, wrote about, and lived so dramatically. 
Walking with Father Vincent is a story needed now more than ever, a story of great personal holiness and devotion, a life of love fostered in a deeply Catholic home, a life lived with joy and vigor, bravely, and unflinchingly, for the purpose of saving souls, and in defense of eternal Christian Truth.

Walking with Father Vincent

Christian Books & Bibles

Gracewing

Andrew McNabb's ethereal debut story collection, The Body of This, is a gathering of tough, close, and spiritual stories illuminating the complex architecture of people and their places. With writing as raw as it is powerful, McNabb's stories will by turns shock and delight: a man gives up a winning lottery ticket to keep his wandering girlfriend; a Sudanese refugee discovers the simple beauty of a new way home; a mother sees her true self reflected in her newborn son's albinism; an awkward seminarian seeks a wife during a single night out. One thing is certain, these are unusual stories that will entertain and, as good fiction often does, leave the reader lightly dazed and wondering. Informed by a deep, real-life spirituality, Andrew McNabb's award-winning stories have appeared in such diverse literary venues as The Missouri Review, and Not Safe, But Good: Best Christian Short Stories, 2007.

United States

Warren Machine Co

Inspirations & Lamentations: Literary Devotions of an Unusual Sort

Arouca Press

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