An Obscure Read

Mr. God, This Is Anna written by a British guy named Fynn and set in his country, is about a little girl who touches the life of a single boarder with her insight into spiritual matters.

I never bought the book but tried to find it last year and was told it was out of print. After some more digging I found it online and someone bought it for me for Christmas last year much to my delight.

I loaned it to a friend of mine a year ago almost and she recently told me she didn’t understand it.

I think it’s a cultural thing.

Written in the 1930s it now sells for $6.50 on Amazon.

At the time it was published the Los Angeles Times called it “haunting” and that “It swells in the mind.”

The first sentence of the book states that the difference from a person and an angel is easy.

The author of the book, only known by his first name, knew the character of Anna for three and a half years.

There are phrases in the book such as “nighttime people,” “railway wall,” “mirror book,” and “raisin pudding.”

I always had a problem with God but in this book I was able to actually imagine a Higher Power who maybe cared about me.

It was this gentle introduction by way of a five-year-old in the book that helped bridge that gap.

And yet, I would not call it a religious book but a spiritual one, free of dogma and rhetoric.

It’s perfect for someone like me.

“The minute I encountered this wonderful little book it became a favorite, “said Frank Silfies.
“To the little girl (in the book) an important answer that is the answer to a lot of questions, the more questions the more important the answer,” said Andrius Kulikauskas.