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Margaret's Ark (2011)

by Daniel G. Keohane(Favorite Author)

3.7 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0983732906 (ISBN13: 9780983732907)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Other Road Press

review 1: This isn't a fast-moving thriller, soon-to-be-movie, where one eccentric scientist or lucky stargazer tries to avert a major disaster. This is a story about Margaret who, amongst many others, is visited by an angel. In her vision, she is told to build an ark for 30 people - no more, no less - and given the instructions on how to build it. This is also the story about Jack, a homeless man suffering from traumatic brain injury, who knows that his job is to warn people about the coming flood. Both know that this flood isn't caused by God, because He promised not to, but that instead He is sending them a warning to help them save people. And this is the story of their attempt to do so. It focuses on the small stories of the individual people - the store clerks, the docto... morers, the local religious leaders - rather than looking at the government; it includes the struggles with local by-laws (you're apparently not allowed to build a boat on public property) and the struggles with people who can't, or won't, allow themselves or anyone else to believe.I don't know what I expected for the ending, but it felt right. I wished it had continued, but that's always the way with a book you enjoy because you don't want the story to end.
review 2: When all is said and done, this is a book about faith - Margaret's, Preacher Jack's, and the thousands of others whom angels have visited. There are some who question their faith, and some who deny their faith, but never does this book become preachy.Margaret is one who is steadfast in her faith. She begins to build an ark on the town green, to the specifications given to her by an angel in a dream. She doesn't know why she's building it to these specifications, only that she must. Others soon join her and when they run out of funds for materials, they begin stripping down her house.Jack is a homeless man, but God sends him an angel as well. He's damaged in both mind and spirit, often forgetting what he's doing, but he's filled with the power of the Lord and preaches His word to any who will listen.Suresh Ramprakash is visited by an angel as well, but though he believes, he ignores the angel for his wife, who does not believe.We meet others along the way, although the story focuses mainly on Margaret. This is a fascinating, richly detailed story about faith, prophecy, and the end of the world. Could this really happen? I advise you to read it for yourself to find out less

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