Dinner with God

Introduction

Hi! How awesome that you decided to read Dinner with God. In case you ended up straight on this page and didn't read any of the other pages, here's some background: Dinner with God is a novel I wrote for my father. A novel in which I send my parents on one last adventure together, to give them a chance to say goodbye, the way life didn't allow them to. The book doesn't tell the story as it went down, it tells the story the way I would have liked it to be.

As you start reading, you may notice that there's only a limited number of chapters. That's correct, you are reading it as I am translating it. In 2011 I started writing Dinner with God, but needed some sort of natural deadline. So I decided to try an experiment: allow people to read it as I wrote. An interesting challenge, because it meant that I couldn't go back in the story and change things. Due to this I was forced to fix little mistakes, and that led to amazing story developments that I would never have come up with otherwise. It truly was a rewaring adventure, especially thanks to all the comments and feedback I received during and after the writing process.

After I finished the English draft, I was given the opportunity to publish the book in the Netherlands, titled Dancing with Memories (Dansen met Herinneringen). I translated it to Dutch and may rewrites follows. As a result, the Dutch novel now differs greatly from the American one, meaning that it is time to reboot the project. This time I won't be writing the novel, but I'll be translating it, and you can read the chapters as I go along. I hope you'll have a great time reading Dinner with God.and, just like last time, feel free to e-mail me any comments, remarks, feedback, complaints, mistakes, whatever you like. I greatly appreciate you taking the time to read my novel.

If you'd like to read more about this project, please visit http://www.dinnerwithgod.com

Sincerely,

Martin Gijzemijter