The Jesus Year

The Jesus Year explores the space between joy and tragedy, happiness and despair, sincerity and absurdity. A husband won't throw his wife a party for her thirty-third birthday; a woman becomes obsessed with redecorating her familial cabin; a couple's west coast elopement turns dangerous; a father must talk hisdaughter out of canceling her wedding; a mother meets her thirty-year-old daughter for the first time; three friends' lives collide at an annual Christmas party; and a downtown couple drive to a prairie church to plan the perfect wedding.In these stories, the banal details of life crash against momentous occasions, revealing what is hidden, and recasting what is already in plain sight.