The release date for the English version of 'Have a Little Faith: a True Story' by
Mitch Albom is Sep 2009. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
In Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom offers a beautifully written story of a remarkable eight-year journey between two worlds--two men, two faiths, two communities--that will inspire readers everywhere.
Albom's first nonfiction book since Tuesdays with Morrie, Have a Little Faith begins with an unusual request: an eighty-two-year-old rabbi from Albom's old hometown asks him to deliver his eulogy.
Feeling unworthy, Albom pushes for a deeper knowledge of the guy, which forces him to return to the religious environment he had left behind years before. In the meanwhile, Albom becomes engaged with a Detroit pastor who is a former drug dealer and prisoner who ministers to the underprivileged and destitute in a dilapidated church with a hole in the roof, closer to his present residence.
Moving between their worlds, Christian and Jewish, African-American and white, impoverished and well-to-do, Albom observes how these very different men employ faith similarly in fighting for survival: the older, suburban rabbi embracing it as death approaches; the younger, inner-city pastor relying on it to keep himself and his church afloat.
As America struggles with hard times and people turn more to their beliefs, Albom and the two men of God explore issues that perplex modern man: how to endure when difficult things happen; what heaven is; intermarriage; forgiveness; doubting God; and the importance of faith in trying times. Although the texts, prayers, and histories are different, Albom begins to recognize a striking unity between the two worlds--and indeed, between beliefs everywhere.
Ultimately, as the rabbi draws closer to passing away and a hard winter threatens the pastor's shaky church, Albom reluctantly grants the rabbi's last wish and composes the eulogy. And at last he realizes what the two guys have been teaching him the whole time: the deep solace that comes from trusting in something greater than oneself.
The book Have a Little Faith explores the idea of a life's purpose, the journey of losing and regaining faith, and the divine spark that resides within each of us. Though it is the tale of one man, it is the narrative of all of us.
Ten percent of this book's sales will benefit charitable causes, such as The Hole In The Roof Foundation, which restores houses of worship that provide housing for the homeless.