Simply the Best

or at least one of the very best I have ever read.  Coaltown Jesus is theology done right.  Walker asks for help from God when his brother dies and he and his mom are having a tough time of it.  He asks God to help his mom, who runs a nursing home and is just so beaten down by the death of her eldest son, I think the death was drug-related, but when Jesus actually show up, he ends up helping both Walker and his mom.  Amazing, amazing book.  Wonderful.  Wonderful.  I can't say enough.  This was the first book I read by Ron Koertge but it won't be my last.