MY HIGHWAY TO HEAVEN: A Novel of Carlo Acutis

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He was fifteen when he died. He had already catalogued the miracles of the world. Now a girl in Mumbai has three weeks to make them make sense.

Naomi Fernandes is sixteen, in Std. X, and not at all sure what she believes. So naturally, Sister Philomena picks her to run the parish's exhibition on St. Carlo Acutis: forty panels on the Eucharistic miracles a teenage computer whiz from Milan catalogued before he died. Three weeks. One thousand rupees. A missing fortieth panel she has to find herself.

With her friends - Farhan, who is Muslim and can't stop joking; Kabir, who keeps saying he's fine; and Rajesh, a Hindu skeptic who fact-checks everything - Naomi starts reading. And the further she reads into a dead boy's list of impossible things, the closer it comes to her own family, her own friends, and a question she has never once let herself ask.

Moving between present-day Mumbai and Carlo's own short, joyful life, My Highway to Heaven is a warm, funny, moving novel about doubt and devotion, friendship and family - and about a God who goes looking for us long before we think to look for Him.

For anyone who needs the receipts before they'll believe the story.

About the Author

Blaise D'Souza is a writer and peer support advocate whose work explores the intersection of faith, mental health, and the quiet, hard-won work of healing.

Drawing on his own decades-long journey through serious mental health struggles, he writes with honesty and deep compassion, exploring a question many people carry in silence: "Am I bad, or am I mad?"

His search for answers took him through many seasons of life — from Catholic retreats and a prestigious PhD program in America to some of the hardest years of his life, wrestling with addiction. Through it all, he held on to faith, and slowly found his way back to hope. He is the author of the following:

Nonfiction
Let Them Know I Love Them · No Madness No Badness · The O Happy Fault

Fiction
Dongri to Lal Baug via Bhayandar · The Applicant · He Told No One · It Takes Three to Counsel: Stories of Barefoot Counsellors · My Highway to Heaven: A Novel of Carlo Acutis · Running to Church: All Is Well at St. Anne's · Sakhi.exe · The Fourth Chair: A Barefoot Counsellor's Story · The Hardbound Truth

Based in Mumbai, India, Blaise writes to offer companionship and hope to anyone who has ever felt caught in the gray area between struggling and being understood — a reminder that healing, however long it takes, is always possible.

Book Details

ISBN: 9789334510560

Publisher: Blaise D'Souza

Number of Pages: 178

Dimensions: 6"x9"

Interior Pages: B&W

Binding: Paperback (Perfect Binding)

Availability: In Stock (Print on Demand)

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