The Shack -- William P. Young, Paperback

After his daughter's murder, a grieving father confronts God with desperate questions -- and finds unexpected answers -- in this riveting and deeply moving #1 NYT bestseller.

When Mackenzie Allen Phillips's youngest daughter Missy is abducted during a family vacation, he remains hopeful that she'll return home. But then, he discovers evidence that she may have been brutally murdered in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness.

Four years later, in this midst of his great sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note that's supposedly from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment, he arrives on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change his life forever.

Author: William P. Young
Publisher: Windblown Media
Published: 07/01/2008
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780964729230

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.6
Point Value: 13
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 136835 / Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity


Review Citation(s):
Newsweek 09/08/2008 pg. 15
Entertainment Weekly 08/12/2008 pg. 141
Christian Century 10/21/2008 pg. 11
Entertainment Weekly 11/28/2008 pg. 79
Entertainment Weekly 03/20/2009 pg. 69
Books & Culture 01/01/2010 pg. 33
Newsweek 12/28/2009 pg. 98
Christian Retailing 07/01/2010 pg. 35
People Weekly 07/25/2011 pg. 48
Best of the Year 01/01/2015 pg. 1

About the Author
Wm. Paul Young was born a Canadian and raised among a Stone Age tribe by his missionary parents in the highlands of former New Guinea. He suffered great loss as a child and young adult and now enjoys the wastefulness of grace with his family in the Pacific Northwest. He is also the author of The Shack, Cross Roads, and Eve.