My recent book, Exodus’ Remains is a story about what remains after the Israelites leave Egypt. The story focuses on one person’s experience, and occurs far outside the traditional narrative we hear about God leading His people to the promised land.
I think the original inspiration for this type of story came to me from the first verse of Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited. “God said to Abraham, ‘Kill me a son!'” The idea of what things are left out of the traditional stories is very intriguing, and I have written several pieces in that vein, including Eve’s Favourite Fruit. Right now I can’t help but think of the new movie Noah as a comparison.
This is a short novel, so the good news is it’s not necessarily a week long commitment to read, and you can hold the whole thing in your head at once. The setting is fluid and at times surreal, and the timeline and events are meant to provide a sense of wonder, while the characters that appear in each chapter have a very real and identifiable human quality to them.
I read Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane last year, and I think some of the surreal mood from that carried over into this piece.
Exodus’ Remains is available in ebook format only, although in the future it might be published in print. The book is currently available on Kindle and Kobo. (hint: You can download apps for both Kindle and Kobo for free onto your smartphone and you’ll find it surprisingly enjoyable to read that way if you’re a smartphone user.)
The book is priced at $3.99 (although this fluctuates with the dollar), which is about the price of a fancy cup of coffee. I hope you enjoy reading the book, and I would love to hear feedback on what impression it makes on you.
There will be more books to come. The next project I am working on in this style is about the prophet Jeremiah. I can’t wait to see where that one takes me!
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