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Jesus' Son: Stories Denis Johnson
Publisher: Harper Perennial

A similar point is made in the Gospel where Jesus' word raises the dead son of a widow and the people proclaim 'a prophet has come among them'. She dresses up as Aunt Lydia (as in Lydia from Thyratira, from the book of Acts) in a modest purple robe (like the kind Lydia might have sold) inside her Christian book store, The Bible Barn. I was recently listening to an old episode of The New Yorker's excellent Fiction podcast a few weeks ago on which Tobias Wolffe read Denis Johnson's story Emergency from the collection Jesus' Son. In both of the stories we have today the great figures of faith are helping widows. Tryout turned out to be the keyword, here. However, while all of these stories are amazing and inspiring, they pale in comparison to the greatest story ever told. It is more commonly referred to as the story of the prodigal son, though the word prodigal is not found in Scripture. As I have mentioned before we are a homeschool family but as part of our children's education we do have them is different classes to enhance their learning. The poorest and most vulnerable of all, widows in these two stories receive the greatest gift of all – the return of their sons' lives, which meant the possibility of a future. Both stories end with the son no longer dead. But that all changed when Jesus entered her life and brought her son back to her. The story of how God sent His only Son Jesus Christ to die on the cross for our sins! The parable of the prodigal son is one of the most well-known stories of Jesus. The young man who died was his mother's only son – as Jesus was Mary's only son. The woman was a widow – Mary was also a widow by this point. When prophet Mohammed came after hundreds of years after Jesus, he did not have to prove Jesus existed because everyone at that time knew. JESUS' SON was recommended to me as the perfect tryout book for Johnson's literature. With the death of her only son, the widow in our story was once again victimized.