Paul Enns Wiebe: 5 books

This novel is a genre-bending work that blends nonfiction with fiction. It is a mystery/detective/literary work, providing high drama with an occasional dollop of comic relief. The characters include the narrator and protagonist, Ethan Swift III, a former Washington lawyer and amateur comparative...

One evening Father Alazon Lecher appears on a popular talk show to announce that he has received a series of revelations. Several God-sent angels, he says, instructed him to find and translate a set of twelve scrolls, then choose four disciples to help him interpret these scriptures—the Bear Lake...

Like the legendary Walter Mitty, Ed Budwieser has an active inner life, which is inhabited by visions of enjoying the company of younger and more beautiful women than his wife Mildred, who tries without success to be his reality principle. He is easily abetted by his bright young pastor, whose idea...

Dancing Over the Rays of Light is set in a Kansas retirement home and environs. It touches on the humor and pathos of the elderly, who sit, gossip, and dream while being largely ignored by their following generations. It is narrated by a wee cluster of cells that wakes up one morning with no...

Growing up in a Mennonite family in Inverness, Idaho back in the forties and fifties, John Reisender is perplexed. Why had Great-grandma been married in a Muslim mosque way hell and gone out in the wilds of Central Asia? On the road to solving this puzzle, he finds himself excommunicated, temporarily,...