{"product_id":"where-are-you-god-my-wife-has-cancer-9781048305791","title":"Where Are You, God? My Wife Has Cancer","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Michael Janse Van Rensburg\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Mltd Janse Van Rensburg Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Mltd Janse Van Rensburg Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Personal Memoirs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt started as a cough.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the time the scan came back, Lynn - forty-one, two sons, sixteen years cancer-free - had a tumour the size of a fist in her lung. Stage 4. The prognosis was weeks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of what followed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere Are You God? My Wife Has Cancer is Michael Janse van Rensburg's memoir of love and lament - a husband, father, and theologian's account of the months between the first cough and the questions he could no longer outrun. Written in present tense, while his wife was still alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow do you sit across the breakfast table from a wife who is dying, and pray? How do you tell a twelve-year-old? How do you keep believing when the prayers come back as silence?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book moves slowly through small rooms. A hospital bedside. A passage with an oxygen concentrator running. The bedroom where two boys lie in the dark playing a tickle game called Are you happy? It refuses the easy verses. It does not promise miracles. It sits, instead, with Psalm 88 - the only psalm in scripture that ends in darkness - and with the two-word verse before Lazarus is raised: Jesus wept.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA memoir for readers walking through cancer or grief, for those wrestling with the old question of faith and suffering, for anyone who has cried out into a silent sky and wondered whether anyone was listening.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Christian memoir in the tradition of literary lament. The long Holy Saturday between crucifixion and resurrection, where Sunday has not yet come.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mltd Janse Van Rensburg Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47968046121111,"sku":"9781048305791","price":1087.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781048305791.webp?v=1782916580","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/where-are-you-god-my-wife-has-cancer-9781048305791","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}