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When Jesus Came to the Cracker Barrel: And Other Stories

Michael Braswell

This collection of stories explores the backroads and unexpected destinations and outcomes of the journey we call life. From the unexpected visitor who joins four friends eating breakfast at Cracker Barrel to a beloved grandfather sharing a long-held secret with his grandson to a desperate single mother with two small children who meets a used car salesman, these and other stories examine the crossroads of hope and despair--where mercy and justice often meet.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Resource Publications (CA)
  • Publish Date: Sep 13rd, 2024
  • Pages: 124
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.50in - 0.38in - 0.65lb
  • EAN: 9798385230280
  • Categories: Religious - General

About the Author

Braswell, Michael: - Michael Braswell is the author and coauthor/editor of books on human relations, ethics, sports, and religion as well as three short story collections and two novels. His most recent work includes Growing Up South of the Mason-Dixon Line (with Anthony Cavender, Ralph Bland, and Donald Ball) and Teaching Justice (with John Whitehead).

Praise for this book

"This collection of short stories, each more truly something between a short story and a parable,
offers mouth-sized doses of needed medicine. Each of these short stories strikes a different note, together forming a resounding, transformative chord worthy of filling a cathedral. The book in your hands is a gift, a thing for which to be ardently grateful, for within it you will find resonance, inspiration, charge, and challenge."
--Michael J. DeValve, author of A Different Justice

"There is fiction, and there is real-life fiction, and that second distinction is what makes Braswell's stories so compelling to read. He is a master at bringing his characters to the reader's eye in all their moments of upheaval, human frailty, spiritual insight, and unexpected kindness. His characters and themes become clear from the onset of his stories to the conclusions, because we have experienced these people and situations in our lives, but have often not noticed them until Michael Braswell's craft brought them from obscurity into the light."
--Ralph Bland, author of Lockhart

"Michael Braswell's collection of stories edifies and transports the soul to the crossroad where grace and mercy meet."
--Anthony Cavender, author of Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia