ASIN: B078XNDQYX
Publisher: Mascot Books and Cameron Powell
Pages: 76
There are good reasons you might want to walk the Camino de Santiago, or Way of St. James -- but St. James himself is surely not one of them. Cameron Powell tells you the history of the Camino de Santiago that has never, till now, been told. You’ll never think of James, the Camino, or the making of the stories you believe in the same way.As this satirical alternative history novella gets underway, a nameless narrator is walking the Camino de Santiago with his mother. He’s divorcing from his wife, his mom’s cancer is back, and he’s hungry for meaning. But he knows “next to nothing” about his mother’s plan to make him walk 500 miles.He knows the Camino began around the reign of King Alfonso II - “whom responsible historians surely call The Fonz” - in the 9th century, and that, in the New Testament, Jesus referred to James and his brother John as "Sons of Thunder". Whoa. Jesus gave out ...
