Author Karen Spears Zacharias

March 11, 2010 - 06:00 PM

 

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"If Fanny Flagg got religion she'd be Karen Spears Zacharias. Karen is trailer trash wonderful, a guilty pleasure: like eating chicken fried steak with mac & cheese during Bible study."    Susan Isaacs, author, Angry Conversations with God.

 

Page & Palette will welcome critically acclaimed author Karen Zacharias on Thursday, March 11, 6-8pm.  She will be speaking and signing her latest book Will Jesus Buy Me a Double Wide at the downtown Fairhope bookstore.  Zacharias is a familiar name to many in the Fairhope community, having served as an author-in-resident for the Fairhope Center for the Writing Arts in 2008.

Will Jesus Buy me A Double-Wide is a compelling book that challenges the idea that God shows his love by giving wealth.  Employing clever storytelling and prophetic commentary, Zacharias deconstructs the flawed equation that says God’s Favor + Our Obedience = Riches.   With humor, wit and the quirky charm of modern parables, Zacharias shares the stories of faith won and faith lost. From an AIG Employee and the Car Mogul who lost everything to the Alabama debutante who inherited $40 million from her granny’s “Everlasting” rolls, Zacharias compiled a cast of unforgettable characters.


Using her journalistic background, Zacharias scoured the back-roads from Portland, Oregon to Pinehurst, N.C. asking people about two things – God and money. She interviewed the exceedingly wealthy and the extremely poor and a host of people in between. Zacharias wanted to find people ‘who had it right,’ and she found them in unlikely places. Will Jesus Buy Me a Double-Wide is filled with the stories of Americans from different economic backgrounds who struggle with the same foundational questions about their lives and their faith.

 

Zacharias’ latest novel is receiving praise from a fellow authors and creating a fan base in the entertainment biz:


“If the prosperity gospel had a heart, Karen has stomped that sucker flat . . . Whether you live in a mansion on a cliff, a shack by still waters, or in a single-wide on cinder blocks, this is a worthy read.” — Wm. Paul Young, author of The Shack

“I have been a ‘have’ and a ‘have not’ in my life. I have found in my walk with the Lord, as Karen illustrates so well in these beautiful stories, that the riches he desires for us have nothing to do with money. I love a writer that’s not afraid to walk with real people and speak the truth of their lives. Keep shining your light Karen!” — Jeff Foxworthy


“You have a huge fan in the Allman Brothers Band of heathens. Thank you for being brave enough to stand up and be one of our prophets. We desperately need you.”— Oteil Burbridge, bassist and vocalist, Allman Brothers


About the author:

Karen Spears Zacharias is an essayist, long-time journalist and commentator; the author of three previous books: Where’s Your Jesus Now, After the Flag has been Folded and Benched: The Memoirs of Judge Rufe McCombs. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Newsweek and on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered and Morning Edition. Zacharias had her first kiss in a trailer, smoked her first and last cigarette in a trailer, asked Jesus into her heart on bended knee in a trailer, fell madly in love in a trailer (a couple of different times) and gave birth to her firstborn child in a trailer. While writing this book, she became unemployed and bought a flat-screen plasma TV. She and her husband, Tim, plan to retire to a double-wide with a firm foundation and a sturdy pier at Point Clear, Alabama. Visit her online at www.karenzach.com.  

 

The author will exclusively sign all books purchased from Page & Palette.