Return to the Shack

“Marvelous.…Young's brilliantly crafted drama will captivate readers with its spiritually profound message of forgiveness as a form of salvation.”—Shelf Awareness

“Reading great books does for our minds, our hearts, and our souls what physical adventuring does for our bodies. It expands, strengthens, and transforms us. Return to the Shack is one of the great soul adventures of our age. Read it, and you will be transformed.”—Bear Grylls, adventurer, TV personality, and author of The Greatest Story Ever Told

“This sequel is not built next door to The Shack, it is constructed underneath it. These pages deal with the roles of forgiveness, trauma, and redemption in our lives, because understanding how we navigate these topics either expands or limits how we can grow in our faith, our lives, and our impact.”—Bob Goff, New York Times bestselling author of Love Does

“Powerful for me personally, and timely for the world!”—Andre Agassi, tennis champion and author of Open

“I held my breath reading Return to the Shack—‘How will I tell Paul if I don’t like it?’ But I didn’t need to worry. This book is as powerful and life-altering as The Shack. Like the first book, this one changed me.”—Wynonna Judd, artist and musician

“The gospel is not an abstraction; it is a story—the eternal story that all the great stories are trying to tell. And now Paul Young, one of the great storytellers of our time, takes up his tale to explore the possibilities of redemption. Return to the Shack is a gripping novel and a triumph of theological imagination.”—Brian Zahnd, pastor and author of Unseen Existences

“This haunting and brave book explores what it means to believe that the most impossible hopes of mercy and new creation might turn out to be possible on the far side of the worst violence and the deepest tragedy.”—Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury

“This book is so many things. Here you will find good medicine: patient care, wisdom, insight, vital corrections, fortification, and a deeply articulated love.”—Steve Bell, CM, OM, Canadian singer

“There are no words sufficient to convey the importance of reading Return to the Shack, and there are not enough stars for me to rate it. It stands on its own as a classic of what true Christianity is all about.”—Wade Burleson, former president of the Southern Baptist Convention (OK) and former trustee of the International Mission Board (SBC)

“This wisdom-laden story dismantles your defensive armor and captures your heart. The question of what choices we are invited to make when faced with the complexities of humanity lingers long after the last page is turned.”—Felicia Murrell, author of AND: The Restorative Power of Love in an Either/Or World

“Return to the Shack reflects the hard-learned wisdom of two more decades of the author’s real-life losses, nagging questions, and personal ministry in the bowels of death row.”—Bradley Jersak, principal of St. Stephen’s University and author of A More Chrisltike God

“Mack emerges as a fully formed, beautifully complex human being who feels, thinks, and struggles but also keeps running into God in the strangest places and with the strangest people. I never anticipated the ending—except, knowing Paul, I knew Jesus would come out looking like Himself, and He did.”—Jim Henderson, 3Practices.com, author of Jim and Casper Go to Church