Synopsis
Gabriel Black is sentenced to prison for a murder he did not commit. In a twisted expression of honor, he takes responsibility for the action of a woman he loves and pays with his freedom.One day in the prison library Gabriel reads about a man with a wonderful family and a successful career who finds that he has been cured of cancer-thus proving, the man says, the existence of God. Gabriel believes a truer test of God's existence would be to find proof of Him in a disgusting, violent, hopeless corner of the world like prison.Gabriel creates a file where he stores any evidence of the divine he comes across no matter how unseemly. In brutal, honest language, The God File recounts the dark comedy of one man's search for meaning.ABOUT THE AUTHORFrank Turner Hollon lives in Alabama, with his wife and children. He is the author of numerous novels, including Blood and Circumstance, The Point of Fracture, The God File, and Life Is a Strange Place, which will be released in 2009 as a major motion picture titled, Barry Munday.
Library Journal
Gabriel Black faces a life sentence after being convicted of the murder of his girlfriend's husband. He's not sure why he took the blame when she shot her husband in cold blood, and the answer to that question is just one of many he searches for as the years roll by. Gabriel's experience with religion is shallow, existing mainly in his memories of a Catholic childhood. With time on his hands, he decides to start a "God file" in which he keeps record of events occurring in prison that prove or disprove God's existence. After all, he figures, Jesus came to the poor, the downtrodden, and the forgotten, and no one fits that description better than an inmate. In brutal, explicit language, Gabriel shares the contents of his files and leaves it up to the reader to decide if he has found the God he was searching for or if God was guiding him all along. Not for the faint of heart, this is an outstanding example of the continuing exploration of gritty reality in spiritual fiction. For progressive collections. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.