Product Description

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!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1 in Books
• Published on: 2008-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

From AudioFile
Mac is a grief-stricken father in mid-life about to have an extraordinary experience with God. His great sadness began four years ago on a weekend camping trip, when his 6-year-old daughter, Missy, was murdered. What he couldn't know then, but is about to learn, was God's purpose for Missy's death. Roger Mueller's clear, gentle voice characterizes Mac's family with high-spirited joy and laughter. His portrayal of Missy's animated excitement makes her especially believable. His polished performance of grief-stricken Mac brings tears. With empathy and sensitivity, Mueller captures the mysterious voices of those who have invited him to the now abandoned, yet transformed, cabin in the wilderness. This compelling fantasy explores themes of love, loss, and blame. G.D.W. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Review
"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 Holy Spirit for the first time in my life. --Patrick M. Roddy, ABC News Emmy Award winning producer

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. When I read it, I felt like I was fellowshipping with God. If you read one work of fiction this year, let this be it. --Mike Morrell, zoecarnate.com

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, Professor Emeritus of Spiritual Theology, Regent College, Vancouver, B.C.

About the Author
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.

Customer Reviews

Just In Time
I had never heard of this book. My sister emailed me and said I MUST go get this book to read. I did and read it in two days. I read it while I fried bacon for my families breakfast, I read it in line at the drive through, I read it while waiting for a prescription and while I read it I wept, laughed and felt a release of a burden I had not realized was there. I had hints of it, ideas flashed through my mind at times, thoughts swizzed by during prayer, but never something I could put to words, something I could put my finger on. Never until now.

I have read the other reviews of this book and the points that some make about the accuracy comparing to scripture. Very valid points. However the conversations that Mac had with God about redemption and forgiveness and then with Jesus about the idea of His Bride, His Church revealed something in my spirit and ignited something in me that has been asleep for too long.

The amazing journey into God's heart
WOW! Words cannot describe the way I am feeling after just finishing the book a few days ago. I am still mesmerized with all the characters, more importantly with God, Jesus and Holy Spirit! I have been a Christian for the last 5 years and have been through several Bible courses and am considered as a mature Christian at the moment but this book just brought me into a new level to undertsand love and grace!
I truly believe that I was let to read this book by supernatural guidance of God through supernatural events happened around me. In a couple of dreams and visions I even saw parts of the book which I did not own. God has been talking to me regarding His unconditional love for the last few months and I was having a hard time to understand it.I truly believe in my heart that this book is a great work of God to reveal Himself to us as how we should be communing with Him! So much peace, joy, love and happiness entered into my life suddenly after reading this book! I feel a lot lighter like a new person! My prayer life and communication with God is also elevated to a higher better level that effects the rest of my life in an amazing way! Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ, for raising up brave people like William Paul Young to get us understand you better and better!

The Shack Review
This was an excellent book. Opens the mind to let God out of the box we tend to put Him in.