am within 10,000 words of the end of the book I have spent years writing. I have been asked by my agent, who now has to sell it, what in my opinion is the theme, the purpose, the lesson of my book – that is, if it has a lesson and is not just a piece of entertainment. He asked me this because he was looking for a purpose for the book, knowing I was trying to share wisdom and not simply be a page-turner among many page-turners that just keep the reader busy for
