Paul is a failed entrepreneur. When he enters a process of career transition, he quickly realizes he is seeking something much greater–his true authentic self.
Why are you downcast, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him for the help of His countenance.
Psalm 42:5
Transition Diaries is the latest novel published by Saint Patrick Press.
The story is made up of diaries that were found in the drawer of an old desk. The diaries are edited by Jeremy Scientia and a neurotic psychoanalyst named Henri R.N. Erikson.
The diaries unpack Paul’s struggle to enter a world he feels ultimately estranged from. His entries are wrought with anguish and suffering, false starts, and missteps as he tries to find a job and keep his company from bankruptcy at the same time, all while attempting to feed his family.
The story is edited into three main sections:
Glass represents the urban jungle of Paul’s failed career transition attempts.
Hut is where Paul escapes to in rural China after a failed attempt at teaching English in a village outside of Beijing.
Tree is the place of Paul’s repentance and the purification of his sight—to see what is real and what is fake in his life.
The narrative is book-ended by the two editors’ stories of how they found the manuscript and all the struggle and irony that it took to publish them into the book itself.
This is a book for ’seekers’ along the Way. For those who are struggling with a materialistic secular world and the limits of modern existentialism and nihilism. It is a book for those transitioning to another trail, another narrower path along the Way.
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