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Where Melting Crayons and Burning Battleships come together
– a journey from autism to enlightenment:

Challenging Frank to unbridle his creativity, his writing instructor tells him, "To be a great lover, you have to shed your armor. To be a great writer, you have to shed your skin." Though Frank doesn’t get the substance of the words, he can’t let them go. He’d like to be both but his autistic childhood, visual impairment, dismissive parents, and narcissistic brother prevent him from being either.

Then on vacation in Hawaii, he has what feels like a paranormal experience on the Arizona Memorial that starts him down a path of psychological and spiritual self-discovery. In making the transitions from weird to respected, awkward to insightful, brainy to wise, his relationships with women evolve from fearful to erotic, and through them doors open to unexpected opportunities with his writing. His journey teaches him the wisdom in the teacher’s words, and in lifting himself from the purgatory to which his past had banished him, he inadvertently helps free those he connects with from their own shadowed depths, making his story the Memoir of an Unlikely Savior.

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Six quirky journeys with a gallimaufry of gods:

Frank is faced with an imploding relationship and a broader loss of purpose, challenges made greater by his history of autism, visual impairment, and corrosive family ties. While trying to cope, he's sent by an implausible but genial host on six deity-graced journeys to strange, enigmatic lands. Each journey puts him in a different world and each challenges him to change the world for the better. Echoing Gulliver’s Travels and Steppenwolf, each is also an allegory, in Frank’s case for one of six imponderables facing human contemplation:

• Truth and What Is
• Human Nature and Free Will
• Suffering and Death
• Morality and Justice
• Faith and the Nature of God
• Meaning and Purpose in Life

And through these journeys Frank finds the unexpected truth that shapes all of life.

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Is Frank a Savior following in the footsteps of Jesus
or an ordinary guy caught in a net of coincidences and odd events?

Can the events of Frank’s life be explained by unusual natural occurrences or is the explanation supernatural? Are Frank’s experiences the tricks of a paranormal mischief-maker or did God decide the world needed a booster shot and choose Frank to provide it? With no way to resolve what’s behind what they see happening, how do the people closest to Frank cope with the ambiguity?

Borrowing elements of structure and style from Biblical narrative, four “books” written by Frank’s closest friends tell the story of Frank’s decisive days. Each friend knows different parts of Frank’s life, each has a different perspective on Frank’s holiness, and each gives a different emotional focus to the story they tell. Together they provide a picture of The Path Frank’s life follows to resolution.

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