Return to the Shack

“Reading great books does for our minds, our hearts, and our souls what physical adventuring does for our bodies. It expands, strengthens, and transforms us. Return to the Shack is one of the great soul adventures of our age. Read it, and you will be transformed.” * Bear Grylls *
“This beautiful sequel to The Shack takes us deeper and further than we have gone before.” * Bob Goff *
“Intense and deeply moving. William Paul Young’s subtle ingenuity turns a masterfully woven fictional narrative into a deeply reflective invitation.” * Felicia Murrell *
“I held my breath reading Return to the Shack. It is as powerful and life-altering as The Shack. It is medicine for the soul.” * Wynonna Judd *
“This haunting and brave book explores what it means to believe that the most impossible hopes of mercy and new creation might turn out to be possible on the far side of the worst violence and the deepest tragedy.” * Rowan Williams *
“The gospel is not an abstraction; it is a story-the eternal story that all the great stories are trying to tell. And now Paul Young, one of the great storytellers of our time, takes up his tale to explore the possibilities of redemption. Return to the Shack is a gripping novel and a triumph of theological imagination.” * Brian Zahnd *
“This sequel is not built next door to The Shack, it is constructed underneath it. These pages deal with the roles of forgiveness, trauma, and redemption in our lives, because understanding how we navigate these topics either expands or limits how we can grow in our faith, our lives, and our impact.” * Bob Goff *
“Powerful for me personally, and timely for the world!” * Andre Agassi *
“This book is so many things. Here you will find good medicine: patient care, wisdom, insight, vital corrections, fortification, and a deeply articulated love.” * Steve Bell *
“There are no words sufficient to convey the importance of reading Return to the Shack, and there are not enough stars for me to rate it. It stands on its own as a classic of what true Christianity is all about.” * Wade Burleson *
“Return to the Shack reflects the hard-learned wisdom of two more decades of the author’s real-life losses, nagging questions, and personal ministry in the bowels of death row.” * Bradley Jersak *
“Mack emerges as a fully formed, beautifully complex human being who feels, thinks, and struggles but also keeps running into God in the strangest places and with the strangest people. I never anticipated the ending-except, knowing Paul, I knew Jesus would come out looking like Himself, and He did.” * Jim Henderson *

Wm Paul Young was born a Canadian and raised among a technologically stone-age tribe by his missionary parents in the highlands of what was then New Guinea. He suffered great loss as a child and young adult, and now enjoys the ‘wastefulness of grace’ with his family in the Pacific Northwest.

Paul wrote the first version of THE SHACK many years ago when his children were small. He wanted them to understand God’s grace, and that his concern and love for our wellbeing is constant. Over the years THE SHACK has grown, developed and through many different versions turned into the great success it is today.

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