The Exile: A Devoted Son's Spiritual Journey (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780960088911)

As a college professor, Dr. Arik Greenberg had studied religion all his life, earning advanced academic degrees in his field. But none of this would sufficiently prepare him for his true spiritual journey. In The Exile, the first book of a trilogy, his challenge would be to rescue the family home from his mother's deadly compulsive hoarding, and to protect his parents from their mental illnesses, borne out of a family legacy of abuse. His journey would lead him from a simple, trusting, ingenuous faith-through stages of doubt, anger, and Job-like questioning-and ultimately to a more complex and nuanced relationship with the Divine.

[Disclaimer: Contains graphic testimony of abuse, as well as some depictions of hoarding. Not for the faint of heart.]