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The Blower Prophet
Paperback
Publisher Price: $12.99
Publisher: Fairly Spiritual
Published: Sep 14 2026
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A comedy about sadness
Robert designs graffiti-inducing products. The more they're vandalized, the more money he makes. Disillusioned with his absurd job and sad about his aimless life, he embarks on a poorly planned, covert, self-improvement journey that goes terribly, hilariously wrong.
On his quest, Robert encounters individuals such as Cindy Starlight, a nosy mystical soothsayer; Dr. Elaine Gipsell, a consistently boring dietician; Professor Kaisle, a hypercritical adult learning painting instructor; and Mildred Fern, an effusively kind elderly widow with a propensity for painting extremely accurate male genitalia.
As Robert attempts to solve his sadness, he creates unintended family conflict and discovers that his habit of predicting the worst outcomes in life has kept him from enjoying the best parts of life.
A heartfelt, humorous story about sadness.
This is Doug Bursch's third book, but his first work of fiction. He's spent much of his life talking about the big issues of existence: why we gather in community, why we fight so much online, and why we exist. In The Blower Prophet, Doug focuses on the simple, often humorous, universal struggles that make each of us human.
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