Burnt Offerings

Deep diver is known for his humanistic and optimistic writing. In Burnt Offerings he explores the question of a person’s value through the life of a man who was severely burned when as a child he stepped on a landmine, causing ninety percent of his body to be scarred. Separated from his family and whisked off to America, Lee struggles with his feelings of isolation and loneliness until he meets Zachary a young man who sees beyond the scars on Lee’s body to the inner scars caused by a cold uncaring world, where physical beauty is the paramount value in our plastic consumer society. Lee learns from Zachary that giving to others far surpasses physical beauty as an enduring value which gives meaning to our existence.