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The Most Important Thing Happening: A Novel in Stories
The Most Important Thing Happening: A Novel in Stories
The Most Important Thing Happening: A Novel in Stories
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Fantastical Stories of Timeless TruthsA boardwalk peddler selling one ounce of God. A gentle mute who unwittingly triggers a tragic chain of events. Two businessmen declaring war over the Very Last Sandwich in the Entire World. The characters in the eleven short stories of The Most Important Thing Happening move through the whimsical, the mysterious, and the introspective toward the hope your soul longs for.  So allow these stories to unfold before you one at a time. Chew on them. Let them haunt you. Go ahead and make a few fictional friends. Take a look at the world in a new way. You may come out the other side transformed.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherDavid C Cook
Release dateJan 10, 2013
ISBN9780781408844
The Most Important Thing Happening: A Novel in Stories

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    A lot of fun to read, and to read again so you can see all the ways that these stories are interconnected. On there own, each story is enjoyable. Twined together as they are, they become almost addicting
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