A naked boy wanders alone through a divided land carrying rocks, and seeks refuge in a cave below a hidden monastery in the mountains.
Both are nonfiction accounts of father-son journeys along historic trails..
His new book is Bitterroot: Echoes of Beauty and Loss .
His first book was Waterwalk: A Passage of Ghosts .
He returned to school, acquired the necessary degrees, and now teaches Creative Writing at Longwood University in southern Virginia.
After dropping out of college, he worked a variety of jobs: driving dump trucks, planting grave vaults, newspaper and doughnut delivery, and fourteen years as a carpenter.
About author(s): Steven Faulkner grew up in what is now South Sudan and in Ethiopia in Africa, and later in Kansas.
The Image is a profound and compelling collection of linked short stories about faith, hope, belonging, and the search for meaning within a holy land.
One Image: a timeless work of art.
Three men.
Three stories.
Months later, carrying the treasured face in his briefcase, the photographer faces the utter loss of all he has hoped for.
A middle-aged man returns to the home of his youth in Lebanon, to a cave where he confronts a thief with a camera and protects a sacred, centuries-old piece of art.
A naked boy wanders alone through a divided land carrying rocks, and seeks refuge in a cave below a hidden monastery in the mountains