The Wrong Side of Eternity: A Present-Day Passion

In Uganda Charity Ntambara and her uncle Geoffrey suffer indescribable horrors during the regime of Idi Amin while half a world away self-assured Irish-Mexican Stephen OConnell escapes a small-town checkered past to pursue education near San Francisco. There fresh ideas-and people as diverse as brilliant anti-feminist Madeleine the musical genius Bryce and very earthy Julie Burns-pull his soul in opposing directions. By chance he prevents the murder of a Ugandan refugee catapulting him irrevocably into a world of need and danger.Black-and-white thinking proves no help to Stephen upon encountering the blood-red reality of violence in East Africa some years later. He finds that he too has the capacity to harm others. When a case of mistaken identity nearly destroys his family he must start afresh in a civilized place where safety remains elusive. Friends and colleagues as different as the four elements all labor to make the world a better place. But in the end who will succeed?The Wrong Side of Eternity offers a deeply personal view of how people with very different perspectives respond to and deal with suffering. Comparable to The Poisonwood Bible and Th e Constant Gardener Mary Mendenhalls sweeping passion narrative depicts grim reality without giving in to hopelessness and despair.