Telling Secrets [Paperback]

With eloquence, candor, and simplicity, a celebrated author tells the story of his father's alcohol abuse and suicide and traces the influence of this secret on his life as a son, father, husband, minister, and writer.Very gentle, smart, and unpreachy...A sensible and heartfelt message of inspiration.Extraordinarily personal...intimate, dignified, and wryly humorous.Unabashedly Christian...a meditation on the connection between knowing and sharing secrets and discovering the reality of a loving and merciful God.Buechners chronicling once again tells us something about what it means to be human.