A debut novel by a well-known author, teacher, and pastor.

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Families are messy because relationships are. The Strange family of Castle Cove, North Carolina is no different. Three brothers grow up with the same parents who love them equally and provide for them generously because they can, yet each brother turns out different. Harrison, the oldest, takes over the family sawmill business. Sonny, the middle one, goes down the rabbit hole of alcoholism, while Sydney, the youngest, becomes an Episcopal priest who is determined to save his brother from himself, driving a wedge between them that finally forces him to confront his own humanity, including his unconscious white privilege endemic to small town southern life he has always taken for granted. Caught in the tension between the demands of truth and the resilience of hope, the Strange family saga will make you laugh and cry as you experience the power of storytelling at its best. Includes Readers Guide

Jan Linn is an ordained minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), a graduate of the University of Richmond where he was a member of the school’s Areopagas Honorary English Society, attended Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, and holds the Doctor of Ministry degree from Christian Theological Seminary (Magna Cum Laude) where he was elected to the Theta Phi Honorary Religious Society, and has done further graduate study at Princeton Theological Seminary. His professional positions include Chaplain and Associate Professor at Lynchburg College in Virginia and Professor of the Practice of Ministry at Lexington Theological Seminary in Kentucky. He has also served as a congregational pastor. As a writer, Jan has had nineteen non-fiction books published, including What’s Wrong With The Christian Right, Evangelicalism and The Decline of American Politics, and Unbinding Christianity: Choosing the Values of Jesus over the Beliefs of the Church. He writes a popular blog, “Thinking Against the Grain: Honest Talk about Religion, Politics, and Social Issues,” at linnposts.com. A Brother’s Peace is his first novel.

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