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THE PRODIGAL SON : FORGIVENESS IN AN AGE OF SELFISHNESS

By: Anna Kriger
Narrated by: Richard Bryce Wallis
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Somewhere inside every one of us lives an accountant. He keeps a ledger of who owes what, tallies every slight, and calls the balance justice. He is not a villain. He is the reason civilization works. He is also the reason you cannot sleep at three in the morning, prosecuting an argument that ended nine years ago.This is a book about that accountant, and about the strange, almost scandalous act that overrules him: forgiveness. Not the greeting-card kind, and not the spineless kind that pretends nothing happened, but the clear-eyed decision to cancel a debt while still insisting it was real.Anna Kriger takes one of the oldest stories ever told, a father running down a road to embrace the son who wasted everything, and uses it to open a much larger question. Why is forgiveness so hard? Why can some people manage it while others, no less good, cannot? And why, in an age that has learned to put a price on nearly everything, has the oldest form of generosity begun to look like a mistake?Ranging from feuding families to reconciled nations, from the chemistry of a held grudge to the hidden economics of the gift, this is a witty, humane field guide to a freedom that begins with a single dangerous word: enough.©2026 Anna Kriger (P)2026 Anna Kriger
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