The Book of Jotham - Powers, Arthur
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Second Edition. Winner of the 2012 Tuscany Prize for Novella! Jotham is a mentally challenged man-child who, like the other apostles, follows Jesus as Christ carries out his ministry and experiences death by crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension. Yet the other apostles the dedicated Mary, Peter, Thomas, and the rest while they care for Jotham and look out for him, don t understand why Jesus loves him so. Thomas even says, after Jesus offers a parable, I don t see why all the pots can t be strong and beautiful. Jotham may be different, but through him, we come to see Jesus and Jotham not just with our eyes, but also with our hearts.…mehr

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Second Edition. Winner of the 2012 Tuscany Prize for Novella! Jotham is a mentally challenged man-child who, like the other apostles, follows Jesus as Christ carries out his ministry and experiences death by crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension. Yet the other apostles the dedicated Mary, Peter, Thomas, and the rest while they care for Jotham and look out for him, don t understand why Jesus loves him so. Thomas even says, after Jesus offers a parable, I don t see why all the pots can t be strong and beautiful. Jotham may be different, but through him, we come to see Jesus and Jotham not just with our eyes, but also with our hearts.
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Arthur Powers went to Brazil in 1969 and lived there most his adult life. He and his wife, Brenda, spent seven years in the eastern Amazon, organizing subsistence farmers. They also lived in Rio de Janeiro, Recife, Bahia, Minas Gerais, and Espírito Santo. Arthur is the recipient of A Fellowship in Fiction from the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, the 2012 Tuscany Novella Prize, the 2014 Catholic Arts & Letters Award, and numerous other literary honors. His poetry has appeared in America, Chicago Tribune Magazine, Dappled Things, Hiram Poetry Review, Roanoke Review, South Carolina Review, Southern Poetry Review, Sou'wester, Windhover, & many other magazines & anthologies.