To the Promised Land

Abstract

To the Promised Land is the third installment of philosopher-novelist Michael Boylan’s ingenious four volume exploration of some of life’s great quandaries. Each of the De Anima Novels views fundamental challenges through the lens of the world’s great religious perspectives, letting the reader slip into the characters’ lives as they grapple with such issues as sudden wealth, racial identity, politics, and fate. To the Promised Land gives us powerful individuals wrestling with the conflict between responsibility to ourselves and others, as their tales are paired with insights from the Jewish idea of forgiveness.