No one was more surprised than Andrew Klavan when, at the age of
fifty, he found himself about to be baptized. The Great Good Thing
tells the soul-searching story of a man born into an age of
disbelief who had to abandon everything he thought he knew in order
to find his way to the truth. Best known for his hard-boiled,
white-knuckle thrillers and for the movies made from them--among
them True Crime and Don't Say a Word--bestselling author and Edgar
Award-winner Klavan was born in a suburban Jewish enclave outside
New York City. He left the faith of his childhood behind to live
most of his life as an agnostic until he found himself mulling over
the hard questions that so many other believers have asked: How can
I be certain in my faith? What's the truth, and how can I know it's
the truth? How can you think, live, and make choices and judgments
day by day if you don't know for sure? In The Great Good Thing,
Klavan shares that his troubled childhood caused him to live inside
the stories in his head and grow up to become an alienated young
writer whose disconnection and rage devolved into depression and
suicidal breakdown. In those years, Klavan fought to ignore the
insistent call of God, a call glimpsed in a childhood Christmas at
the home of a beloved babysitter, in a transcendent moment at his
daughter's birth, and in a snippet of a baseball game broadcast
that moved him from the brink of suicide. But more than anything,
the call of God existed in stories--the stories Klavan loved to
read and the stories he loved to write. Join Klavan as he discovers
the meaning of belief, the importance of asking tough questions,
and the power of sharing your story.
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