Outlaw, Ted Dekker
Ted Dekker is one of my favorite authors because I never quite know where he is going with his stories until the end, and he always has a unique take on whatever message he is getting across. This one is no different, although I felt the story was quite a bit different from the others I have read.
This takes place on the island of New Guinea, which if you know anything about Ted Dekker, he was a missionary kid who grew up there. So we learn a bit about the ways of the natives in this book, their culture, and thought processes.
The story is about a southern young widowed mother in the early 1960s who has been shipwrecked and the horrible things that happen to her on this island, so many atrocities---I don't want to spoil anything so I won't go into too much detail---but the first half of the book, there is just one terrifying ordeal after another with just a few calms in between.
The second half, I also can't say much about because it will spoil something important that you have to go through the first half of the story to understand.
I will say, though, that this amazing story explores the identities we take on and how the only true identity is the one that we have as children of God and joint-heirs with Christ. All other identities come and go. And as a child of the true Chief, we are to show His love to those who have never been loved, no matter how much they may hurt us--just as Christ did.
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