Surrender

Surrender

by Chris Baum
Surrender

Surrender

by Chris Baum

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Overview

Surrender can mean many things to many people, even animals. In this fictional story, a religious fairy-tale satire about a Sasquatch named PoBo, we learn what it can mean on many different levels. On one level, he is displaced from his family at a young age amid a war initiated by humans. But with an unyielding spirit to be reunited with his kin--and with music being his best motivator, at least at first--the hairy bachelor decides to set off on a dangerous quest to find them. He knows the journey will be fraught with danger because he knows he and his family are on the endangered list--a constant struggle to survive. But like an adage he once read in a book, "nothing ventured, nothing gained," he is steadfast to not give up on his goal. Fortunately, and unexpectedly, he gets some assistance from two animals, one of whom is far bigger in his faith than his physical size. PoBo encounters many obstacles along the way, and his own faith is tested repeatedly as time runs out to fulfill his quest. What he at first thinks is the true meaning of his journey becomes redefined as a desperate yearning to achieve three things: faith, family, and love.
When we're broken and we realize we are not in complete control, it's time to surrender.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940158667251
Publisher: Covenant Books
Publication date: 10/26/2017
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 311 KB

About the Author

The author is proud to admit that he is a constant reader and writer because books don’t have redundant commercials. He was born on Independence Day, lives in Ohio, and graduated from Kent State University in 2016 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. He is happily married to his best literary critic, Melannie. They have two sons, Michael and Alexander (“Alex”), both of whom continue to keep them active and young at heart.
He tells us he draws a lot of his inspiration from some of the creative things that he overhears his kids say throughout the day (like how “PoBo” was something Michael had once said when he was a toddler, and “musbeard” was what Alex called his facial hear when he grew his beard out for extra insulation for some of the frigid northeast Ohio winters).
He then describes the act of writing as a conduit that allows us to travel back to our youth and revisit a time of being a free spirit on a carefree playground with no responsibilities—other than maybe a little homework—in a time of innocence.
Then he finishes with a thought on which to ponder: In a sense, we could all stay forever young if we could somehow keep the imagination we had as a child.
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