{"product_id":"2940013861800","title":"The Call","description":"Satire and the supernatural blend together in this humorous but disturbing account of divinity school and the people who are drawn to answering the call to ministry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe story is conveyed in the first person through the eyes of Ishmael O'Donnell, an observant young man who wrestles with familial dysfunction, possession by the spirit of his long-dead twin brother, and a quest for purification from both.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book chronicles the events that lead up to his seeking out seminary as a means of attaining this purification. Upon his arrival at seminary and his three-year journey through the curriculum, he finds himself engulfed in an unending torrent of duplicity, impertinence, and societal abnormalities within a communal setting of characters so driven, tenacious, over-th-top, and supercilious it hurts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe mocking inner voice of Ishmael's twin reverberates louder and louder as he desperately tries to come to grips with what is taking place about him while discovering who he is within the confines of a cloistered setting he finds to be inundated with its own unique form of madness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd when he finally does obtain the key to his purification...but such things are not revealed second hanmd.","brand":"D Hamilton Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069014294768,"sku":"2940013861800","price":2.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013861800_p0.jpg?v=1763596104","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013861800","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}