Living with Fred

by Brad Whittington

Overview

Mark Cloud is back in Fred, Texas but Fred is not the same and neither is Mark. He begins to ask troublesome questions. What would Jesus do if he was a teenage boy in a hick town? Would he play football and go deer hunting? What if his date humiliated him in front of the school? What if he was confronted with a lonely bootlegger? What if his newest disciple got roaring drunk? What if someone got away with murder? As his answers lead him further down the path of least expectance, Mark must choose between remaining faithful to his understanding of the gospel or appeasing the prejudices of those with the power to make his family pay for his decisions.

eBook extras: Reader's Guide, Preview of Escape from Fred

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012754721
Publisher:	Wunderfool Press
Publication date:	07/19/2011
Series:	The Fred Books , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Brad Whittington was born in Fort Worth, Texas, on James Taylor's eighth birthday and Jack Kerouac's thirty-fourth birthday and is old enough to know better. He lives in Austin, Texas with The Woman. Previously he has been known to inhabit Hawaii, Ohio, South Carolina, Arizona, and Colorado, annoying people as a janitor, math teacher, field hand, computer programmer, brickyard worker, editor, resident Gentile in a Conservative synagogue, IT director, weed-cutter, and in a number of influential positions in other less notable professions. He is greatly loved and admired by all right-thinking citizens and enjoys a complete absence of cats and dogs at home. 

Editorial Reviews

Christy Award-winning author Whittington tells a cohesive, confidently written story set in the early 70s. Preacher's kid Mark Cloud, the enormously appealing, literate, self-deprecating young hero, finds a book in his church library that asks the now cliched but then fresh question, "What would Jesus do?" Whittington does an impressive job of focusing the novel thematically while letting its plot meander delightfully, and in doing so paints a satisfying, authentic portrait of late adolescence.

Publisher's Weekly - Publishers Weekly

Readers who enjoyed Honoluluan Brad Whittington's gently humorous evocation of adolescence, Welcome to Fred, have probably already gobbled up this sequel, in which teenage PK (preacher's kid) Mark Cloud finds God - and then has to figure out what to do with him. Whittington's skill with dialogue - both the external conversations and Cloud's internal musings - pulls you into and through this book with the ease of fishing line on a new reel. A good read.

Honolulu Advertiser - Honolulu Advertiser

I had no preconceived notions about Living with Fred before reading it, other than hearing that Brad Whittington was a fantastic up and coming author. After finishing the book, I'm now planning to read Welcome to Fred, (the first of apparently three books dedicated to the subject) as soon as I can find it. That should let you know that Brad Whittington is a good author.

InFuze Magazine