Messiah at Rush Hour

By Christa Albrecht-Vegas

Messiah at Rush Hour is a novel about digging down to your deepest self. In a magically real moment of transcendence, the fate of three souls stranded on the median of life depends upon whether they can resurrect the divine within themselves.Joy Mason is a reluctant protagonist with a trauma-laden past involving a schizophrenic father, a heroin-addicted brother, and an absentee mother. Skirting the borderline between pain and catatonia, she is no candidate for messiah. Her best friend, Amy Stryker, a passionate vegan activist and self-appointed savior of the accursed animal masses, is far more likely to fit the role. With a raging case of obsessive-compulsive disorder and a self-imposed starvation diet, Amy already bears a cross of her own making. As Joy flees from a love interest in the form of an architect with a preference for demolition and a wooden leg, Amy flirts with lunging into rush hour traffic to save a wounded pigeon on the highway. Joy is poised at the precipice of a permanent zombie state. Amy is vanishing under an affliction of self-loathing. These two self-destructive young women can't even manage to save themselves, yet a world of wounded souls cries out to them.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517047455
• ISBN13: 9781517047450
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"