Der Glaube eines sterbenden Vaters, die Wut eines Sohnes und ein Kampf, der den Tod überdauert.
Wer die Handlung trägt
A 58-year-old physician with a jogger's body and an incurable cancer, who thanks God for the tumor killing him. He wants to die faithful, not just alive, and his letters keep working on his family long after the quiet Sunday morning he dies at home.
A law student who worships his father and cannot stomach his father's God, storming out of dinners and praying angry ultimatums in empty churches. He inherits a pro bono case, a stack of letters, and eventually the faith he spent a year fighting.
A nurse who spots the symptoms first and then spends a year caregiving until she collapses in a hospital chapel. She survives her husband by learning she doesn't have to be strong, only held.
The daughter who weeps at the diagnosis and remembers the fishing trip at the deathbed, the one who holds her father's hand as he dies. She carries the family's softest memories.
The middle child between his hot-tempered brother and weeping sister, steady enough to read 2 Timothy at the graveside a year later. He grieves without breaking.
A hospital chaplain who catches Bonnie when she falls apart and later hands Chris the book's thesis in two sentences. She tells him he's already started the moment he asks how.
Ebenfalls dabei
A young widow at the grief group who lost her husband to leukemia and defines grief as love with nowhere to go. She's the first person Chris lets in.
A dying boy on Chris's pro bono case who asks the one question no adult has dared ask Chris, then answers it with his grandpa's line about Jesus taking the scary part away.
Wie sie zusammenhängen
The middle child between his hot-tempered brother and weeping sister, steady enough to read 2 Timothy at the graveside a year later.
A hospital chaplain who catches Bonnie when she falls apart and later hands Chris the book's thesis in two sentences.
A hospital chaplain who catches Bonnie when she falls apart and later hands Chris the book's thesis in two sentences.
She's the first person Chris lets in.
A dying boy on Chris's pro bono case who asks the one question no adult has dared ask Chris, then answers it with his grandpa's line about Jesus taking the scary part away.
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Glaube, der keine Ergebnisse verlangt · Trauer als Liebe ohne Ziel · Wut auf Gott als Phase, nicht als Endpunkt · Was Väter hinterlassen
Themen erklärtDie ganze Handlung Teil für Teil, das Ende erklärt und ein kurzes Quiz.
Zur Zusammenfassung