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Many today pursue knowledge and even wisdom. But what about truth? In an age that disputes whether truth can be universalized beyond one's own personal experience, it seems quaint to speak of finding truth. But whether in the ivory towers of the academy or in the midst of our everyday lives, we continue to seek after the true, the beautiful and the good. Since its founding at Harvard in 1992, The Veritas Forum has provided a place for the university world to explore the deepest questions of truth and life. What does it mean to be human? Does history have a purpose? Is life meaningful? Can rational people believe in God? Now gathered in one volume are some of The Veritas Forum's most notable presentations, with contributions from Francis Collins, Tim Keller, N. T. Wright, Mary Poplin and more. Volume editor Dallas Willard introduces each presentation, highlighting its significance and putting it in context for us today. Also included are selected question and answer sessions with the speakers from the original forum experiences. Come eavesdrop on some of today's leading Christian thinkers and their dialogue partners. And consider how truth might find a place in your own life.

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For almost 20 years,Veritas Forums have convened on some of the most prestigious college campuses in America, e.g., Harvard, Yale, UCLA, Penn State. Characteristic of each is an unashamedly Christian perspective on matters of truth, worldview, ethics, and related topics. The present volume represents 15 highlights from this long line of faith-based presentations, given by some of the most profound thinkers alive, Christian or otherwise. Included are notables like Richard John Neuhaus, N. T. Wright, Alister McGrath, and Dallas Willard. Among the book’s six sections are several devoted to atheism, faith and science, the nature of humanity, and social justice. Considering that each lecture was given in a university classroom or auditorium, the tone is only moderately academic. In fact, several of the presentations function more as a dialogue than a straightforward lecture, including one with controversial Princeton ethicist Peter Singer. At least a third of the presentations have their accompanying Q&A sessions. A book that truly seems to scratch where many postmodern people itch. --Wade Osburn

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"You will be ultimately strengthened in your Christian faith if you read carefully this genuinely unique book." (Darold Morgan, Christian Ethics Today, Winter 2012)

"The Veritas Forum began at Harvard University in 1992 as an effort to engage students with the deep issues of truth and meaning that its founders believed were lacking in the modern university setting. In A Place for Truth, Dallas Willard has edited a collection of speeches from two decades of Veritas discussions that attempt to address life's most difficult questions." (Relevant Magazine, September-October 2010)

"Since its founding in 1992, The Veritas Forum has provided a place for the university world to explore the deepest questions of truth and life. A Place for Truth gathers the Forum's most notable presentations, with contributions from Francis Collins, Tim Keller, N.T. Wright, Mary Poplin, and more." (Kathleen Samuelson, CBA Retailers & Resources, August 2010)

"These essays, mostly by Christian thinkers, are serious dialogue about important questions. Whether you find in them enlightenment and encouragement, or much to challenge, I hope you will agree that The Veritas Forum has done a service to the academy by encouraging the discussions." (from the foreword by Harry Lewis, former dean, Harvard College, and author of Excellence Without a Soul)

About the Author
Dallas Willard (1935-2013) was a professor in the School of Philosophy at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles for over forty years. A highly influential author and teacher, Willard was as celebrated for his enduring writings on spiritual formation as he was for his scholarship. His books include The Divine Conspiracy (Christianity Today’s Book of the Year in 1998), The Spirit of the Disciplines, Hearing God, Renovation of the Heart and others. His books have received numerous Christianity Today Annual Book Awards and other recognitions. Willard served on the boards of the C. S. Lewis Foundation and Biola University, and was a member of numerous evaluation committees for the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. He received bachelor’s degrees from both Tennessee Temple College and Baylor University and a graduate degree at Baylor University, as well as a PhD from the University of Wisconsin in Philosophy and the History of Science.

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65 of 68 people found the following review helpful.
Displays the Christian Mind at Work for a Wide Audience
By Fr. Charles Erlandson
I eagerly awaited this book, A Place for Truth, edited by Dallas Willard, and I immediately set to devouring it. On the whole, I thoroughly enjoyed the book and its presentation of Christian Truth but thought that it displayed weaknesses in certain places.

The title, A Place for Truth, comes from Harvard University's motto, "Veritas," which is Latin for "Truth." This volume is a collection of 15 presentations made before the Veritas Forum, a group originally started at Harvard to help restore to the American university its age-old character as "a place for truth." The chapters in the book reflect the oral nature of the original presentations, which helps make the articles relatively easy to read (considering the complexity of the topics) which but also presents certain limitations. Because of the blend of learning and readability, I find A Place for Truth to be a very welcome book. It is a book that is simple without being simplistic, profound without being indigestible, and which asks and answers some of the most important questions of life for all. One of the unexpected things I experienced in the book was the large number of narratives that were included as a means of presenting Christian Truth. This is a book well-suited to our postmodern age.

The first three chapters focus on arguments that focus on Truth itself, and they help set the tone and direction for the remainder of the volume. Chapters 4-6 relate to Faith and Science, Chapters 7 and 8 to Atheism, Chapters 9-11 on Meaning and Humanity, Chapter 12 on the Christian Worldview, and Chapters 13-15 on Social Justice.

Overall, it was immensely encouraging to read chapter after chapter of intelligent Christian (most actively engaged in teaching at universities and all of them highly educated) from a variety of universities speaking convincingly and intelligently about Truth and especially Christian Truth. A Place for Truth is a book that can and should be widely read. While containing the thought of Christian intellectuals, the chapters are, for the most part, very readable, largely because of the oral nature of the original presentations. It makes an excellent introduction for Christian college students who want to learn more about how to integrate their faith with their learning, and I can even see it being used in Christian high schools. The educated Christian laymen will also benefit from this book, as well as pastors who might want to read a collection of brief works on relevant contemporary topics. One of the audiences I think the book might serve best is those who are not Christians but want to see a more articulate and informed Christian mind at work.

The chapters, however, are not of equal value or quality. Of the three chapters addressing Truth, I found the one by Tim Keller, "Reason for God: The Exclusivity of Truth," to be the best. In fact, it's one of the 3 best chapters in the entire book. Richard John Neuhas' chapter was not particularly enlightening, while the chapter by Os Guinness presented a lot of good material but, it turns out, too much for so little space. Keller, in his chapter, does a masterful job of presenting 5 ways that people today tend to deal with the exclusive truth claims of religion in order to avoid them. It is a primer on how modern and postmodern people want to do away with Truth, and Keller provides brief but powerful arguments against each of the 5 attacks on Truth.

The 3 chapters on Faith and Science each contain much helpful material, but each has its own weakness. Collins' chapter spends too much time dealing with background and biography and is not as focused as it could have been, while the exchange between McGrath and Helfand (Christian and atheist) involves an interchange that works better when there is a lot of time and not only a few pages to deal with such complex issues. Ross' is a fascinating chapter that weaves scientific thought into the story of his conversion to Christ.

Vitz's look at the Psychology of Atheism is fascinating and deals with the theory of the defective father as a cause of atheism but is a fairly limited look at the psychology of atheism. Dallas Willard's chapter on "Nietzsche Versus Jesus Christ" is one of the 3 best chapters. In explaining Nietzsche's philosophy, Willard not only explains much of the foundation for contemporary secular thought but also a stinging indictment of an ostensibly Christian culture that isn't very Christian. If you want to understand more about why modern and postmodern man thinks and acts the way he does, Willard's chapter is as good a place to start as any.

The other chapter that I found to be one of the 3 best was the one by N.T. Wright, "Simply Christian," which is an executive summary of his new book by the same name. "Echoes of a Voice," deals with kinds of evidence for the God of the Bible; "Staring at the Sun," is about talking wisely about God; and "Reflecting the Image" concerns how to be a genuine human being. Wright says a lot in the little space allotted him.

I found many of the remaining chapters less valuable (though still worth reading), either because they were on a relatively narrow topic (such as the chapter on Can Robots Become Humans?) or because they didn't go as deeply into the subject as they might have (such as Sider's chapter on "The Whole Gospel for the Whole Person"). Poplin's chapter, "Radical Marxist, Radical Womanist, Radical Love" is a fine reflection on the love of Mother Teresa but the title is sensationalist and not very relevant to Poplin's discussion. The one other chapter I thought wonderfully provocative and joyful was Begbie's "The Sense of an Ending," which artfully presents the Christian story in an unusual way: the sense of ending we expect in music.

While containing some weak spots, A Place for Truth is, on the whole, a wonderful introduction to how Christian Truth can be brought with power to a dying world which is dying nowhere more than at its universities. Here is an outline of the chapters in the book so the reader can more easily apprehend the scope and sequence of A Place for Truth.

Truth
1. Is There Life After Truth? - Richard John Neuhas
2. Time for Truth - Os Guinness
3. Reason for God: The Exclusivity of Truth - Timothy Keller

Faith and Science
4. The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief - Francis Collins
5. The New Atheists and the Meaning of Life - Alister McGrath and David Helfand
6. A Scientist Who Looked and Was Found - Hugh Ross

Atheism
7. The Psychology of Atheism - Paul C. Vitz
8. Nietzsche Versus Jesus Christ - Dallas Willard

Meaning and Humanity
9. Moral Mammals: Does Atheism or Theism Provide the Best Foundation for Human Worth and Morality - Peter Singer and John Hare
10. Living Machines: Can Robots Become Human? - Rodney Brooks and Rosalind Picard
11. The Sense of an Ending - Jeremy S. Begbie

Christian Worldview
12. Simply Christian - N.T. Wright

Social Justice
13. Why Human Rights Are Impossible Without Religion - John Warwick Montgomery
14. "Radical Marxist, Radical Womanist, Radical Love: What Mother Teresa Taught Me About Social Justice" - Mary Poplin
15. The Whole Gospel for the Whole Person - Ronald J. Sider

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48 of 51 people found the following review helpful.
Veritas Forum's Timely Contribution to Thoughtful Discourse about Faith: Review of "A Place for Truth," edited by Dallas Willard
By Alan L. Chase
Since The Veritas Forum was born in 1992, I have watched with great interest its ever-expanding influence on university campuses across the United States and the world. The Forum grew out of the landmark book by Kelly Monroe Kullberg, "Finding God at Harvard." I read the book with fascination as it recounted the storied of Harvard students, faculty, staff and alumni who shared how they found themselves drawn to faith while within the gravitational field of Harvard University. While originally founded as a training ground for ministers to serve in the parishes of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Harvard University has wandered far from its original vision and religious roots. So, it was a breath of fresh air for me to read about and then to meet women and men whose faith flourished in what others have found to be a spiritual desert.

For almost twenty years, The Veritas Forum staff have worked with campus leaders to sponsor events that promote open, honest and civil dialogue between Christian intellectuals and those who do not share that same faith. "A Place for Truth," captures excerpts from some of the most impactful of the addresses and dialogues that have taken place during Veritas Forum events.

I found it encouraging and significant that the Foreword to the book was penned by Dr. Harry Lewis, former Dean of Harvard College. He states very eloquently the need for a book such as this:

"The essays in this book are based on talks about some of the big questions of life. The discussions took place in universities, not as part of the daily life of the academic family but instead at events sponsored by The Veritas Forum. It is awkward to take up sch questions within the academy itself, unless they can be reduced to matters of psychology or cultural study. And yet students ask questions when they are alone under starry skies or in the blaze of city lights, when they confront decisions affecting the lives of their loved ones, and when they are faced with pivotal decisions about their own lives. The discomforts attendant on this search for the truth are afflictions of the young for which college education offers little aid. I am not among those who regret the departure of God from the academy. I join the atheists in their skepticism about scientific proof of the existence of God or of any meaningful argument for God's existence that is not subject to scientific verification. Yet I regret the extent to which God took with him, when he left the classroom, questions of values and morals and purposes with which young people struggle today as they always have. As much as ever, a good education owes students guidance on examining their own lives." (pages 8-9)

And so it is that The Veritas Forum - in its events and its publications - seeks to fill the vacuum of reasonable discourse on issues of faith that was created when God was summarily expelled from much of the realm of academia - its campuses and classrooms. I found the tone of the essays and conversations offered in this book to be refreshing. These are respectful and civil conversations - not those of zealots screaming at one another across a vast chasm of divergent beliefs and contradictory cosmologies. Instead, respected and learned scholars such as Os Guiness, Richard John Neuhaus, Tim Keller, Francis Collins, Mary Polin, Ron Sider, et al. offer their carefully reasoned arguments for embracing faith or rejecting it. The subtitle of the book lets us know exactly what to expect to find between the covers: "Leading Thinkers Explore Life's Hardest Questions."

This is exactly the kind of book which I will stockpile on my book shelf and give to those I meet who are open to thinking deeply and critically about issues of faith. We owe Kelly Monroe Kullberg, Dallas Willard, Dan Cho and Sarah Park a debt of gratitude for gleaning from the best thinkers their thoughts on these critical issues such as Truth, Faith and Science, Atheism, Meaning and Humanity, Christian Worldview and Social Justice.

Whether you are someone in the early stages of wrestling with these issues or you are further along the road and still refining your thoughts and beliefs, you will find great value in this book.

Enjoy.

Al

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Collection of thoughts and ideas from Veritas Forum
By Justin Lai
"A Place for Truth" is a remarkably compelling and coherent collection of chapters based on The Veritas Forum events on university campuses for the past 15 years. As one who has attended many Veritas Forum events, I appreciated reading this book.

Collections like this are usually cobbled together and suffer from a lack of cohesion, but this volume is different. Reading through it, one has a real sense of moving through some of the big questions facing our society today. Moreover, the context for each chapter reminds us that these are not just abstract, theoretical questions, but ones that real people have grappled with on these campuses. Also, the introduction from Dallas Willard frames the book beautifully. I highly recommend this for anyone involved with the university, or just anyone interested in the implications of ideas.

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Chapter One

THE NATURAL HOUSE

"There is one timeless way of building. It is thousands of years old, and the same today as it always has been." Christopher Alexander, The Timeless Way of Building.

Health for the body, peace for the spirit, harmony with the environment -- these are the criteria of the natural house. All three have deep roots in the human experience and in the ethnic traditions of home building in cultures across the world -- the "timeless way". But in the last two centuries the Western tradition has turned aside from such understanding and respect for the criteria of the natural home has moved to the fringes -- to the alternative health, environment, and holistic "New Age" groups. The pioneers of natural architecture have been many -- from Frank Lloyd Wright to the Japanese, from Baubiologie in Germany, appropriate technology in Wales, and earth-sheltered homes in Australia to biospheres in the USA. More and more, the strands of health, ecology, and spirit are coming together -- the new architecture is alive and well. Ideas and technologies that seemed revolutionary a few years ago are more widespread and natural products more available. Great areas of the planet were once covered by forests rich with a profusion of plants, birds, and animals. Our ancestors, few in number, roamed at will feeding on anything to hand and moving on as the seasons changed and animals migrated. From archaeological evidence, and from contact with surviving remote peoples, it is becoming evident that these cultures were far from primitive. They were (and, where they still survive, are) as sophisticated in many ways as modern urban society. They accumulated over generations a very detailed and intimate knowledge of everything around them -- climate, seasons, animals, and plants. Their lives may have been more insecure, but they enjoyed more freedom and an intimate relationship with a world still untouched and beautiful.

Home to these first peoples was their whole territory and spiritual landscape. Caves, trees, grass shelters, and hide tents provided natural and traditional temporary campsites for different seasons. By the millennial clock of our existence, it is only in the last minute of the eleventh hour that we have changed our primordial living patterns and started to build permanent homes and settlements. Indeed some archeologists now think that the life of the early hunter-gatherers was not willingly exchanged for the relative security of settled agriculturalism, but only under pressure of increasing population and decreasing wild resources. The change meant the gradual loss of that deep spiritual contact with all their fellow species, the earth, and the heavens. In their dreamtime walkabouts, Australian Aborigines still seek this today as they follow ancestral spirit paths to sacred sites.

Nonetheless, the earliest settlements and much indigenous architecture throughout history since, continued to express a close link with nature. Everywhere across the world there are diverse and ingenious types of ethnic housing, built from local materials that sit comfortably in the landscape, and respond well to local climate. They follow generic vernacular types that have taken thousands of years of trial and error to perfect.

There is a danger that when we look at houses of primitive or unfamiliar cultures we misinterpret what we see. As Enrico Guidoni stresses in his book Primitive Architecture, there is a tendency to overemphasize the influence of local climate and materials and to underestimate the importance of the social, cultural, and spiritual context. Not all ethnic houses are appropriate to their climate nor do local people, even when given sufficient natural resources and space, automatically make the best use of their materials. The houses of the Masai people of East Africa, for example, are too low to stand upright in and smoke from cooking fires fills the inside. Nevertheless, most ethnic homes around the world manage both to integrate spiritual and physical needs and to be in harmony with the local environment.

Early city builders may have understood better than we do the principles of natural ecology. The Greeks appreciated the benefits of the sun and even treated equal access to sunlight as a legal right. They planned the city of Olynthus in the 5th century BC with streets oriented so they all received equal sun. In the New World, Pueblo Bonito showed as great a sophistication. The terraced "sky city" of the Acoma Indians near Albuquerque constructed on a sheltered mesa also ensured the "sun rights" of all houses, even when the sun was at its lowest in winter. Thick adobe walls absorbed the heat of the day and released it at night while straw and adobe roofs gave insulation against the hot summer sun. Concern for healthy housing has a long history, too. Evidence from ancient cities, such as those built by the Sumerians, or in the Indus Valley, and by the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, indicates a developed and sometimes sophisticated understanding of health and comfort. Piped water and cisterns, hypocaust underfloor heating, hot baths, and steam rooms, toilets and sewers, courtyards cooled with pools and fountains, and herb gardens all existed. Most of this earlier knowledge was lost in Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. But in many other cultures it remained a continuing tradition, from thermal baths in Japan to the sweat lodges of the native Americans.

Today, many agencies in developing countries are seeking to draw on the rich heritage of ethnic building and combine it with modern appropriate technology to provide self-build (owner-builder) housing. And it is often to the ethnic tradition that modern natural architecture turns for its inspiration in seeking new solutions to old problems -- of climate, health, and the sense of home.

The Western tradition

In the 18th century, the vernacular, craft-based traditions in Europe were first disturbed by the Agrarian Revolution. Large land enclosures and rich landlords displaced indigenous communities, and imported foreign styles and materials were introduced for manor houses and merchant city homes. Homes and towns still, however, retained much of their former grace and maintained their integrity with the local landscape and climate.

The American settlers developed new building traditions in response to the conditions in their adopted land. New England "saltbox" houses were built with their high side to catch the sun and the low, sloping roof at the back turned to the prevailing winter winds. The ovens and fireplaces termed a central core to heat the surrounding rooms efficiently, and some rooms were closed off in winter. In summer, a pergola hung with vines shaded the sunny side from excessive heat. In the hot and humid Southern states, great ingenuity was used to cool homes with cross-ventilation. Open as well as shuttered verandahs and passages cooled the classic plantation mansions while a straight-through corridor served to ventilate the humble "dogtrot" house. In the drier Southwest and Mexico, the Spanish adapted their Mediterranean heritage to the hacienda, ranch, adobe house, and to the city square, or zocala.

It was the Industrial Revolution that finally ended the thousands of years of the "timeless way". More than the mechanization it brought, it was the new world view that was to change our direction so completely. The Industrial Age ushered in a belief in mastery of nature by science and machines, and a change to a mass society. In terms off the home, the consequences were a move away from the individually craft-built houses in villages or small towns to uniform and anonymous urban dwellings close-packed around the factory, mill, or mine and, later, radiating outward from the city centre in great bands of suburbs. People were no longer involved in shaping or understanding, their own role in the

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A great overview of wholistic living homes
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The book is dated (1998), but the concepts and ideas are perhaps even more timely then when it was written. The book gives an overview of how various decisions in home building and daily living affect humans health--physical, mental, and spiritually, and how those choices affect the earth itself. This is a major undertaking for 300 pages, but the author actually does a good job of touching on most of the choices--choices that are as important to day as 15 years ago, and 15 years from now.

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The New Natural House book is one of two books that I recommend when people ask me which books I feel have helped me the most while working on my house renovation. The other book is The Healing House by Barbara Bannnon Harwood. The New Natural House Book is an excellent resource it covers material that you normally need five or ten books to cover. Alternative building methods, energy efficient lighting, indoor pollutants, color and light, non polluting paint, lighting design, sacred spaces, etc. and it is done in a thoughtful helpful way. I bought this book for one of the people that helped me on my project.

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Purchased this for my (adult) daughter, after noticing she'd stuck about 10 or 12 bookmarks into the copy she'd checked out from the library. She likes it, very much!

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Written in 1913, this modern classic was the source for the highly acclaimed film, The Mistress

In The Wild Geese, prominent Japanese novelist Ogai Mori offers a poignant story of unfulfilled love, set against the background of the dizzying social change accompanying the fall of the Meiji regime. The young heroine, Otama, is forced by poverty to become a moneylender's mistress. She is surrounded by skillfully-drawn characters—her weak-willed father, her virile and calculating lover (and his suspicious wife), and the handsome student who is both the object of her desire and the symbol of her rescue—as well as a colorful procession of Meiji era figures—geisha, students, entertainers, unscrupulous matchmakers, shopkeepers, and greedy landladies.

Like those around her, and like the wild geese of the titles, Otama yearns for the freedom of flight. Her dawning consciousness of her predicament brings the novel to a touching climax.

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"The Wild Geese is a spare, yet intricate, read. The narrative moves quickly, and the characters are developed in a way that successfully reveals their passiveness and internal weaknesses. It is a good book that clearly has paved the path for later writers, and for those seeking the early inspiration for the great Japanese Masters that filled the 20th Century, Ogai Mori is not a writer to overlook." —BlogCritics.com

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Ogai Mori (1862-1922) stands in the foremost rank of modern Japanese novelists. His professional success as an army surgeon was outstripped by his even more brilliant ascent in the literary world of the Meiji and Taisho eras. His work is characterized by a strong humanistic element, a romantic quality effectively tempered by realism, and a lucid style that often rises to lyric intensity as in the closing passages of The Wild Geese. Written in 1913, The Wild Geese enjoyed such success in Japan that it was made into a film, shown abroad as The Mistress.

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I am so happy to have found the book that my great-uncles were reading when they came up with my grandmother's name. Grandma gave the name to my mother, I took it for myself (I liked it so much) and then gave it to my daughter. I just love having the story I heard all my life come to reality.

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Achingly beautiful
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This is a tale of complex people who in their interaction find life to be much more complicated than they had expected or feared. Suezo, a moneylender, is tired of life with his nagging, highly imperfect wife, so he decides to take a mistress. Otama, the only child of a widower merchant, wishes that she could provide for her aging father, and when an obviously rich man asks her to be his mistress, a new hope beckons. When Otama learns the truth about Suezo, she feels betrayed, and hopes to find a hero to rescue her. When Otama meets Okada, a medical student, she feels that she might indeed have met her hero.

This is a bittersweet story, a story of hope and unfairness. The wild geese wish only for freedom, but sometimes others use them for purposes they cannot imagine. Published between 1911 and 1913, this book gives an excellent peek into the society of early modern Japan.

This book is an achingly beautiful story, and a fascinating historical document. I highly recommend it.

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The coflict between love and surperstition!!
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This love story of a girl who became a lover of an old bill collecter and fall in love with a medical student is a sign of japanese mentality in the drastic changing situation between the periode "Edo" and periode "Meiji". As his first novel "Dancer"in wich he told his uncompleated love in Germany(at that time,having a foreign wife was a taboo), Mori tried to show the example of a conflict of natural feeling of love and the traditional superstition.Why the girl could not acheave her love? In Japan they said that a real love is a love forbidden, but it is sure that what Mori wanted to say in this book is not that beauty.

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In her gripping debut novel, Lucy Atkins takes us on one woman's journey to the beautiful and rugged Pacific Northwest to discover the dark secrets of her family's past so that she can understand and accept herself. Kal McKenzie was never close to her mother Elena, whose coldness towards her spoiled any chance of a good relationship. When Elena dies of cancer, Kal feels forlorn: how do you mourn a mother who, inexplicably, just didn't seem to love you?
While clearing out Elena's art studio, Kal finds a drawer packed with postcards, each bearing an identical one-line message from a Canadian gallery owner named Susannah Gillespie: "Thinking of you." Who is this woman and might she hold the key to her ruined relationship with her mother?
Conflicted by her grief and shaken up from recently seeing a covetous text from an old girlfriend on her husband's cell phone, Kal impulsively sets off with her toddler Finn to Susannah's home on a remote British Columbian island, a place of killer whales and storms.
Soon Kal quickly realizes she has made a big mistake. The striking and enigmatic Susannah will only share a few scraps of information about Elena. Kal discovers that her mother was a pioneering orca researcher-an activist trying to save the powerful and dangerous creatures.

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• Brand: Atkins, Lucy
• Published on: 2015-02-03
• Released on: 2015-02-03
• Original language: English
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• Dimensions: 9.25" h x 1.38" w x 6.25" l, 1.25 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 416 pages

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"Part mystery, part feminist tome, part story of parental love, part animal-rights narrative, The Missing One is like nothing I've read before . . . [a] poetic page turner."―The Cleveland Plain Dealer

"A gripping page-turner."―The Sunday Times

"A moving and suspenseful tale of the secrets a family keeps."―Rachel Hore, author of The Silent Tide

"This novel is brilliantly gripping."―Closer

"Beautifully written and compelling... a wonderful thriller that is also such a strong portrayal of motherhood.―Sabine Durrant, author of Under Your Skin

"A page-turning and suspenseful tale... I read it in three sittings... a compelling emotional mystery."―Lucy Clarke, author of The Sea Sisters

"Lucy Atkins's engrossing debut immediately immerses the reader in intrigue."―Publishers Weekly

"Set amidst the majestic backdrop of Canadian cliffs, Lucy Atkins' The Missing One is an unpredictable thriller from the start . . . Overflowing with breathtaking imagery and heartbreaking relationships, this book portrays that in the midst of every situation, experiencing the power of a mother's love for her child is as priceless and incredible as the black-and-white weaving beneath the blurry blue, their familial instincts as sure and steady as the waves in which they live. "―Killer Nashville, "Book of the Day"

"Lucy Atkins is an accomplished writer, and this is a beautiful novel . . . As an exploration of how the past shapes who a person becomes and how that influences those around them, it is hard to surpass The Missing One . . . The Missing One is a powerful story of love, loss, and motherhood . . . astoundingly direct, thrilling, and well-written. If there's any justice in the publishing world, this should be an award contender."―New York Journal of Books

About the Author
Lucy Atkins is an award-winning feature journalist, book critic, and author. She writes for many newspapers and magazines in the UK including The Guardian, The Sunday Times, Red, Woman, Home, and Grazia. She is the author of a number of health books and is a media commentator on parenting and cultural issues. She is a consultant on advertising campaigns and produces written materials for documentary films. She has been a lead fiction reviewer for The Sunday Times for 15 years, and chairs events at the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival. Lucy has a degree in English from Oxford University (1990), was a Fulbright Scholar for an M.A. at the University of Pennsylvania. She lives in Oxford with her husband and three children and their pets. This is her debut novel.

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An intriguing mystery debut thriller of dark family secrets—bridging the gap from past to present!
By Judith D. Collins
A special thank you to Quercus and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

THE MISSING ONE, a gripping and emotional debut by Lucy Atkins, taking readers on a journey from California, England, to British Columbia with an intriguing mystery thriller of dark family secrets—bridging the gap from past to present.

Kali seeks to unravel her unknown past. Her mom’s life is a mystery, having died of cancer, and her grandparents are deceased, as well. Her dad is not forthcoming with any information. Kali often felt her mother favored Alice, her sister. Kali wants to be a good mother and feels a strong desire to explore her past.

As she is clearing out her mom, Elena’s art studio or storage, Kal discovers some postcards, from a Canadian gallery owner named Susannah. Always, “thinking of you.” Did her mom have an affair? Who is Graham? She reads this letter which has her questioning if Alice knew about the affair? The postcards have Canadian stamps, though one is sent from Taos, NM, and another from Seattle and a few from further afield—Quito, Moscow, and Durban. The later postcards come from the Susannah Gillespie Gallery.

With her ten month toddler Finn, Kali impulsively flies to Vancouver to meet Susannah, (even though she has not notified her of her impending arrival), who has sent post cards to her mother, Elena for over thirty years. In addition, another impulse – she suspects her husband Doug is having an affair.

Of course, now that she is here in this remote area of Canada, there is bad weather, heavy storms, killer whales, and she is fighting for her life as well as her son, Finn. Who is this woman Susannah? Is she dangerous? Does she have more family and if so where are they? What a chilling adventure!

Kali travels halfway across the world looking for her mother; putting Finn in terrible danger, and herself and possibly another life, but the truth has been staring at her all the time from the crease in the wedding photo. However, she could not see it because she was too busy running away, spinning stories, and pressing them into blanks.

It is easy to forget, when you are running away from something that you are always running toward something else. “Sometimes you need to run away in order to get somewhere.”

A very intriguing tale, as have been reading quite a few novels about parent’s withholding information about the past, allowing their children to go to great lengths, while they are trying to protect dark secrets and ultimately cause more problems, by doing so.

The Missing One offers vivid descriptions of the islands off the coast, nature, beauty, whales, orcas, and other elements of the sea, as the book switches from the present, one woman’s quest for answers and a mother’s mysterious past.

Even though I was frustrated at Kal’s behavior at times, the beauty of the novel, lies in the narrative— almost poetic, the vivid descriptions, the setting, the wildlife and connection to human nature.

As Kali discovers her mother was a pioneering orca researcher—an activist and scientist in the 70s— the storylines intersect,nd secrets are unraveled as the tension builds. Like the whales, her mother lives in two world: breathing in one, then diving beneath.

An ideal selection for book clubs and discussions, with an array of viewpoints and motives; from those trying to protect one another, by withholding the truth.

“The captive orca was trying so hard to stop her baby from hurting itself on the sides of the tank that she forgot to feed it. The instinct to protect trumped the instinct to nurture.” -- Perhaps Kali reacted as well and learns motherhood is triumphant, an extraordinary force not to be messed with.

A mix of women’s fiction, strong female friendships, relationships, suspense, thriller, family drama, animal rights, activist, and feminist—for an engrossing and emotional page-turner thriller. An ongoing main theme of parental love; a strong and powerful tale of motherhood, a parents’ love for their child, and the lengths they will go to save their them; with parallels of the orcas protecting their own as they stray--similar to human dynamics. An author to watch...look forward to more.

On a side note: With similar subject matter, I am strongly reminded of one of my favorite US authors, Mary Alice Monroe. Having read many of her books, she is known for her intimate portrayals of women's lives, and an active environmentalist; she draws themes for her novels from nature and the parallels with human nature—drawing attention to various endangered species and the human connection to the natural world.

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Real depth of character wrapped in a gripping tale. Couldn't put it down.
By Kazzese
This is a great read. It has that rare combination of a gripping plot and a soulful internal journey. Atkins skillfully alternates the story between a daughter's present quest to unravel long-hidden secrets from her mother's past, and the telling of that story from the mother's point of view. Ultimately, it is a beautiful story about the unbreakable connections between mother and child, a theme eloquently evoked through Atkins' gorgeous descriptions of the intense familial bonds of killer whales and one woman's quest to bring a voice to those misunderstood giants of the sea. If you enjoy unique premise + great writing + immersion in another world (think "State of Wonder" by Anne Patchett, or "Euphoria" by Lilly King) you will enjoy this book, the kind you look forward to diving back into at the end of each day.

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Brilliant debut.
By Liz Barnsley
Thank you to the author and publisher for the review copy via Netgalley (UK)

Kal McKenzie always had a tricky relationship with her mother, Elena, but when Elena dies of breast cancer, Kal is bereft: how do you mourn a mother whose love you could never count on?

So, I found myself reading two equally compelling but very different books about how the choices of a parent can affect their children – this one and the recently reviewed “This Child of Mine” so I’m surprised I’m still standing – phew, talk about emotional responses to books, “The Missing One” had me tied up in all kinds of heartache in the best way possible.

Kal is a complete mess when we meet her in the opening stages of this story – having just suffered the loss of a mother she never really understood, she is also tackling the very real possiblity that her husband is having an affair – this leads her to an impulsive move and one that may cost her more than she imagines.

Determined to unravel her mothers past in order to come to terms with her own sense of self, Kal travels to a remote location to unlock the secrets of her childhood. Taking young son Finn with her, she finds a mystery with its roots in the lives of a group of people she had never even heard of – including in a very real sense, her own mother.

We hear the story of Kal’s journey alongside snippets of her mother Elena’s earlier life, and as the tale progresses, long held and deeply buried secrets start coming to life -and this is compelling stuff.

Some amazing characters can be found here – Kal herself is a nightmare in a wonderful way, I often wanted to slap her, so naive is she about the motives of others – and so seemingly determined to continue on this path despite circumstances screaming at her “NO GO BACK! ANYWHERE BUT HERE!”. To be fair to her though, her father is no help – he is annoyingly cryptic and if at any point in the whole dilemma he had actually just told the truth, so much heartache could be avoided – and therein lies the beauty of the storytelling here..our very real and heartfelt attempts to protect our children can often be the very thing that is doing them the most harm..

When Kal meets Susannah, an old friend of Elena’s, things really begin to snowball – a wonderfully drawn complex character, Susannah holds the key to it all, but she is strangely reticent…and the very real sense of threat surrounding her is palpable in the pages she inhabits…cleverly done.

Descriptively speaking this is beautiful writing – the parts of the story that deal with the wonderful wildlife, specifically Killer Whales, is brilliant and I learnt a lot – I feel some research coming on, I want to know more about this subject. As a backdrop to Elena’s life and the things that drive her, it is organic and totally believable…you can almost forgive her for what comes later.

All in all a wonderful tale, well told, one that may leave you slightly overwrought in the best way possible, and one that I would highly recommend for those who like family drama with a mystery and thriller element.

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