An Imperfect Miracle

by Thomas L. Peters

Overview

Nathan Gray has trouble making friends, his alcoholic father ran out on him, his mother is preoccupied with work and finding a new husband and his dog Chewy has just died. So perhaps it's not surprising that Nate comes to believe that his beloved Chewy has returned from the dead to once again be his best friend. His mother is alarmed, but the therapist predicts that Nate will grow out of his habit of "seeing things" once he comes to grips with his emotional traumas. But then, on his way to school, Nate stumbles upon what he can only describe as a miracle - a man seemingly healed of a fatal head wound by a smudge on an old, dingy concrete wall. Nate might be on to something that can't be attributed to his imagination, as many in his small industrial Pennsylvania town, quickly ascribe spiritual significance to the smudge, and healing powers too. Some of the town's leading citizens decide to capitalize on the sudden influx of tourists by turning the smudge into a shrine and charging admission. Not everybody is on board with the notion that the miraculous has somehow intruded into their mundane routine, and Nathan soon finds himself at the center of a raging controversy. AN IMPERFECT MIRACLE is a moving piece of literary fiction dealing with love, loss and one boy's attempts to find substance and clarity in a chaotic world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781611871241
Publisher:	Histria Books
Publication date:	06/25/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	236
File size:	543 KB
Age Range:	12 Years

About the Author

Tom has lived his entire life in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, other than a brief excursion to the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor, where he graduated near the top of his class. Tom later made partner in an international law firm but a few years later left the active practice of law. His fiction credits include a published short story and an award-winning e book novel, An Imperfect Miracle, published by San Francisco-based Untreed Reads.Tom enjoys playing the violin in his spare time. A review of An Imperfect Miracle appears below.