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It's Easier to Reach Heaven Than the End of the Street by Emma Williams

It's Easier to Reach Heaven Than the End of the Street

A Jerusalem Memoir

by Emma Williams
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  • Dec 2009, 384 pages
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And the why? The layers of complication and interpretation, and the flow of hate and love in this land, and a vengeful God sitting somewhere in the middle, and Peter’s question, how to get out, unanswered, and the block on doing anything to sort it out because — well, just because.

But it doesn’t help to get angry.

Excerpted from It's Easier to Reach Heaven Than the End of the Street by Emma Williams. Copyright © 2009 by Emma Williams. Excerpted by permission of Interlink Books. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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