What a depressing book! It was so realistic at times that I felt deep emotions. Basically, you have John who is a Mennonite that gets drafted during Vietnam War's era. However, as a conscientious objector he gets to work at a hospital facility as a maintenance worker. The whole story covers his life over probably a good decade to two decades of his life. It is mainly about how the choices we make to obey God or to let things slide here and there as we mix in with the world can have drastic problems and take you away from God. John was definitely one who gets sucked in, yet God's love for Him never goes away. It was a powerful story about love and torment and some things don't always come to a close or get solved just like in life, but how God can lead one to doing His will even after we screw up a bunch of times and are left with wounds from the battles of daily life. This book doesn't focus really at all on Conscientious Objection as I hoped it would, honestly, but it was good and sad. Too sad for me, in honesty.

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