Laurie Jameson

The Waystation

'Cause Dead's Not Really Dead

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Gold Medal Winner in the 2019 Illumination Awards, Enduring Light Category Silver Medal Winner in the 2018 eLit Awards for Religious Fiction Semi-Finalist in the 2017 William Faulkner Awards Welcome to the Waystation, a place where time has no meaning. Consider this your first stop after exiting your life. Everyone passes through on their way to one place or the other (if you know what I mean). People die every day. They choose a life of crime, love the wrong person, see things they shouldn't, or maybe they simply grow old. There's no escaping it. Death comes to us all eventually, so there's no point in running. But be encouraged; death is not the end. Behind every death there's a story of life, love, and sometimes tragedy. I'd like you to meet Cara, Rachel, Tony, Marco, Sarah, Samuel, Loreli and Wren...this is their story. Come on in and I'll tell you all about them. Sit down and have a piece of pecan pie and a cup of coffee or, maybe a glass of sweet tea. We've got sandwiches if you're hungry. Oh yeah, I almost forgot, just ignore that nasty smelling mist you see creeping along the ground. And don't worry about the screams, they're not here for you. In a cross between hard crime fiction and a spiritual parable, The Waystation takes you on an odyssey from the darkness of this world, to the serenity of the afterlife. It carries you from the ugliness of the drug business, racism, abuse, and murder, to the joy that comes when all that ceases to matter. Existing as a stopping point on the journey between life and death, the Waystation is a place to rest and prepare for your real life to begin.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Armour Books
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9780998059600
• ISBN-10: 0998059609
• Artikelnr.: 60370097

Autorenporträt

Laurie Jameson had a completely unremarkable childhood as the only child of Mississippi born and raised parents. Though she grew up in southern California, she spent every summer of her childhood and part of her high school years in Mississippi, and is no stranger to the odd ins and outs of southern life. If you haven't experienced a sea of roaches crawling across your front porch on a muggy summer night, then you haven't grown up in the south and probably can't relate to the entire "southern thing." Her love of reading started before she even had a complete grasp on the alphabet. As a toddler, she could often be found under her parents' dining room table with her blanket and her story books, looking at the pictures and telling herself the tales contained within their pages. As she grew, she often found reading more interesting than the world around her. She spent many family vacations with her nose in a book, completely oblivious to whatever sights her parents were vainly trying to point out to her, often responding with, "If you've seen one tree, you've seen them all." Yes, she was that kid at school who spent recess comfortably situated in a patch of shade reading while everyone else ran around playing. She never had any intention of becoming a writer. She stumbled on it quite by accident after having a rather intense dream and telling her husband it would make a great book. He talked her into writing it by presenting her with a new laptop and telling her to get on with it. Five years, lots of tears, many glasses of wine, way too many toffee peanuts and chicken enchiladas later, success. No one said it would be easy, and that's probably a good thing, because they would have been lying. But it's certainly been interesting.