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Eli Harpo's adventure to the afterlife : a novel / Eric Schlich.

Eli Harpo's adventure to the afterlife : a novel / Eric Schlich.
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 Adult Fiction   Adult Lending . Automatically Renewed . 27 Jun 2024
Reserve Title Catalogue Record 700043620
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ISBN 9781419769122 (hardback)
Classification F SCHL
Personal Name Schlich, Eric, 1988-
Title Eli Harpo's adventure to the afterlife : a novel / Eric Schlich.
Production & Copyright Details New York : The Overlook Press, 2024.
©2024
Physical Description 338 pages ; 24 cm
Content type text
Summary Note "When Eli Harpo was four, he underwent emergency open-heart surgery, flatlined on the operating table, and for a brief time, went to heaven and met Jesus. Or at least that's what his father, a loving but devout Baptist minister, has raised him to believe. Nine years later, Eli isn't so sure. His rounds with his father to evangelize at hospices and sell his father's self-published book, Heaven or Bust!, feel inauthentic and strange, especially now that he's started having sex dreams about Jesus. Between that and his mother's terminal breast cancer diagnosis, Eli feels further from heaven than ever. But when the famous televangelist Charlie Gideon shows up at the Harpos' doorstep with a proposal to create a new attraction based on Eli's trip to the afterlife at his Bible-themed park, Eli isn't able to say no. As the Harpos head off on a rollicking road trip from Kentucky to Bible World in Orlando, Eli is left to grapple with not just his faith and his sexuality, but also his own parents' messy humanity and what happens when a family held together by mythmaking starts coming apart at the seams"--
Subject - Topical Term Heart -- Surgery -- Patients -- Fiction
Near-death experiences -- Fiction
Mothers -- Cancer -- Fiction
Families -- Fiction
Evangelists -- Fiction
Subject - Genre Bildungsromans
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