Katie Huggins’s Reviews > Crossroads > Status Update

“Sin is real&God's forgiveness is real.Thats the message of the Gospel.But there's not much in the Gospel about the afterlife-John is the only one who talks about it.Isnt that strange?When the rich man asks Jesus how he might have eternal life,Jesus doesnt give him a straight answer.He seems to say that heaven is loving God &obeying the commandments,&hell is being lost in sin—forsaking God.Is there an afterlife?~

"You don't have to be paranoid,The whole thing's over, except I'm going to miss the Orange Bowl."
"No mention of my name, then."
"I already swore to you. Do you want me to get a Bible?
"No need.I just hadn't imagined your mom going into the city with my dad.It was only the two of them.I have a bad feeling that we haven t heard the last of this?
"What did you expect?You're the one who sell dope."
"Exactly my point.”

“Never mind the 9year-old Perry:the fifteen-minutes-ago Perry was a stranger to him!Did his soul change every time it achieved a new insight?The very definition of a soul was immutability. Perhaps the root of his confusion was the conflation of soul&knowledge.Perhaps the soul was one of those tools built to do exactly one specific task,to know that I am I,& was mutable with respect to all other forms of knowledge?~

“He remembered the sex talk, or what had passed for a sex talk, that his mother had given him before he left for college. Whatever else he might hear on campus, she'd said, sex without commitment was empty and ruinous. This was the ancient wisdom. As with the parietal rules, he was realizing too late that old people weren't entirely stupid. Beneath him was a weeping girl to prove it.”

I rly like this so far!

The few people that I’m friends with who have read this have all left glowing reviews, and I’ve seen multiple people say it’s one of the elusive Great American Novel… Naturally, when I saw a hard copy army local Walmart for $5, I decided to grab it.

I wonder how long it took him to write this.. I like how the vocabulary changes a bit with close look at the characters. I think I’m going to love this.