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The Substitute
Meet the author Kristen Proby |


Phil Harrison
Dear Reader,In THE FIRST DAY I wanted to create a character who was committed equally to faith and desire; and to follow the complicated shapes into which his life, and the lives of those around him, would be inevitably pitched. Samuel Orr takes his love for Anna a woman he should not love as seriously as his love for God. And his persistence (in both directions... and for all its messiness) creates a space in which questions surely insistent for us all of authority, desire, abandonment are made palpably, viscerally alive. I hope you enjoy it.
I have 5 copies of my book to give away. Please email trademarketing@hmhco.com with the subject line "The First Day" to enter to win one.
Phil Harrison
THE FIRST DAY
