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The Loser Letters
A Comic Tale of Life, Death, and Atheism
Author: Mary Eberstadt
P.J. Rourke has this to say about Mary Eberstadt and our book of the month,
"As a Christian humorist, Mary Eberstadt is the rightful heir and assignee of C.S. Lewis, and her heroine in The Loser Letters is the legitimate child (or perhaps grandchild) of “the patient” in The Screwtape Letters."
The Screwtape Letters contain ingenious interpersonal and intrapersonal conversations about dark persuasion, and in like manner The Loser Letters take on not just interpersonal but the oh so important larger scheme of how atheism and theism affect today’s society as a whole.
Eberstadt’s use of creative neologisms, black comedy, and scathing satire are not to be matched. The Loser Letters is difficult to put down, a fast read, entertainment with multiple serious twists and a point well made ending! It’s applicable for a wide range of ages. It would surely catch the interest of middle schooler’s to adults of any age!!
Her heroine writes in LETTER FIVE entitled Those Obnoxious Christian Convert Traitors – and What to Do about Them:
"Dear Atheist Author BFFs, I just love calling You that! Is it okay with You if I do? The Director said it was fine with him, because he knows that the B means “Best” and the F’s mean “Friends Forever”. So before going into one more Letter that I hope will help this new Atheism of ours to get off the ground, let this convert to godlessness tell You just how much You’re all my BFF’s, and why it’s so important that You are."
The Loser Letters, in my opinion, is likely to be an award winning masterpiece. Mary Eberstadt is a post modern apologist, whom Michael Novak describes as using a “rollicking defense of Christianity”.
Seriously, this is not a book to be missed!!
Reviewed by Janet Bond