This book is my baby! I spent a good 10 years from beginning research (for my Ph.D.) through the finished draft. The epic religious fantasy is a 186,000-word a religious-historical epic based on the life of Moses (drawn from Sund’s research on the Torah for his Ph.D. in Mythological Studies with an emphasis in Depth Psychology. The novel in five “books” follows themes and stories from each book of the Torah. Early readings elicited this response:
“Asher’s novel, House of Life, is the best unpublished manuscript I’ve seen in years. It’s a 630-page retelling of the Torah—the life of Moses—but it reads like a hilarious, heartbreaking, suspenseful, cinematic, literary, sweeping epic adventure.”
—Will Allison, New York Times bestselling author and contributing editor of One Story.