Nine Days

Three People Meet And Decide They Like Each Other. And The Fun Begins. An Unlikely Friendship Of Disparate Travelers--A Questioning Evangelical Christian A Jaded Skeptic And A Metaphysical Lesbian--Deepens Into An Amusing But Gut-Wrenching Collision Of Beliefs And Passions. Using Humorous And Edgy Relationships And Disturbing Moral Conflicts Nine Days By Eric Pflum Probes The Angry Divide In America...With A Dish Of Ice Cream And Three Spoons. . Helen Parker Wife Of A Bestselling Author And Charismatic Megachurch Pastor Has Embarked On Her First-Ever Separate Vacation. Her Safe And Comfortable World Is Shaken By Events At A Resort On The Oregon Coast And Even Further When She Meets Two People Her Husband Would Describe As Enemies Of Everything She Believes In. . One Is Sam Anderson A Discouraged But Good-Hearted Art Historian Who Takes Himself And His Need For Rational Explanations Far Too Seriously. The Other Is Greta Hunt Sam'S Beautiful Lesbian Friend And Fellow Professor Who Both Tantalizes And Irritates Him With Her Teasing Histrionic Personality And Insistence That Sam Is The Reincarnation Of A Tragic Historical Figure.  These Flawed People Argue Flirt And Laugh With One Another As They Battle Through Their Conflicting Ideas Fears And Hidden Desires And--With A Violent Dose Of Destiny--Confront An Angry And Polarizing Society. Eric Pflum'S Thought-Provoking Debut Novel Exposes A Core Dilemma Of Our Times: The Inability Of People On Various Sides Of Moral Theological And Political Issues To Rise Above Their Differences. Readers Are Thrust Into The Crucible Of America'S Culture War With No Easy Answers And No Apparent Way Out.