Two years later, at 50, he started The Shack. He went bankrupt in 2003 and lost his house. (He says he was the first white child to speak Dani, the language of the highlands tribe.) He got through college and a seminary and then worked a string of clerical and service jobs. Young was “born a Canadian,” as his back-flap copy puts it, and grew up the child of missionaries in New Guinea. And although it is a Christian book, its author does not seem to follow any church. The novel’s subject is faith in God, but it is written as if to a reader who has little interest in religion. The Shack’s success is puzzling in part because it is a book of puzzling intent.
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