Preacher: The Story He Was Carrying, (Paperback)

A year after Wren Callahan came home to bury her father, she is reading his third notebook in the shed on the back of his property when she finds a page that wasn't there last week. A name. A date thirty-six years old. A hand older than the surrounding entries - her father's, but younger. <p>The name belongs to a boy whose face has been on a plaque on the clubhouse wall since 1991. The boy's sister, a documentary podcaster, has been circling the same question from a distance for eight years. She arrives in town three weeks before the thirty-sixth annual memorial. </p><p>What Wren and the man her father got sober in 1996 - Sam "Preacher" Hollis, Secretary of the Iron Saints, thirty years clean - will have to learn, separately and then together, is that the moral architecture of the institution they have spent their adult lives inside was built on a body, and that the body was put there by a man both of them loved. The plaque has held for thirty-six years. The page has been waiting longer. </p><p>A story keeps a man sober. A man's sobriety keeps a story alive. And the story was a lie.</p>

• Preacher: The Story He Was Carrying, (Paperback)
• Author: Remy Black
• ISBN: 9798195777005
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-05-07
• Page Count: 152