World of Wounds Summary

Five Journeys:

Carl, comfortable and ruthless atop the corporate pyramid, faces the collapse of that success and his own unsustainable addictions.

Saraya, a young woman raised in a self-sufficient intentional community in the high Sonoran Desert, has reached the age when she needs to discover and carve-out her own life-path.  She must leave the safety, support and the large extended famIly she has known.

Brett, a young Kansan farmer engaged to his high school sweetheart, has his world turned upside-down by an unanticipated, massive tornado-- in December, months away from usual tornado season.

Dr. Isabel Craine, PhD, world-renowned expert in marine sciences, has been clanging the alarm bells about the momentous, dire effects of pollution and climate chaos on the oceans and planet for years, and is reaching a breaking point of desperation and depression that nothing is changing or slowing humanity's headlong plunge toward self- and world-destruction...

Meanwhile, a young woman of college-age who has refused the call to university (though her self-education enjoys great momentum) has just completed a Vision Quest, and returns with insights and a Vision for gathering and harnessing the energies of those ready to live-into a new, necessary world and lifestyle profoundly less-destructive and more in-harmony with the miraculous privilege of existence on this only planet we know.

World of Wounds

A Novel by Zack Lehtinen 

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Reviews/ Buzz

"It was great to read a book about what we are trying to do - we are founder members of a Transition initiative here *proud*.

Recommended :)"

-Justi Carey, Slovenia 

"Hi Zack, I am Cheryl.   [I enjoyed] reading the beginnings of your novel. Young man, you are a wonderful writer, I'm so looking forward to the rest of your work. Never stop writing-you have much to give to the world - this world of wounds. Thank you for your words and generosity in sharing them. Blessed Be."

"This is an excellent novel. I'm only a quarter way through it, and I have the Kindle version, so unfortunately I can't lend it to people when I've finished, but I can tell you that it's shaping up to be a really good read. There's a slew of very real characters, all quite different and well-drawn, and the story is pure Transition, New Story, permaculture, and all the stuff that we're doing here in JiT - a little larger than life, but that's how you make a novel out of real life. I'm already missing it, and these people, when I'm not reading it, which is a good sign. I'm thinking about what they did and said when I'm doing other things, and I'm really looking forward to what happens next. Great stuff."

Nigel Jones, Chair of Jersey in Transition-- Transition Movement, Jersey, Channel Islands

"We need climate-aware literature to help 

us really digest what this all means. 

It's good to see Zack's book out."

Alex Smith, host of Radio Ecoshock.