I would like to acknowledge your accomplishment in writing this book, taking for its subject as it does the lifelong journey and transformation of the gifted Hayet.
A talented young man after wasting thirty productive years due to just one mistake, returns to God and to purposeful living. An inspirational novel based on true stories.
Hayet Africa is born in Asmara, Eritrea in the early 1970s. His country is faced with a war with Ethiopia which would injure and kill about two to three million civilians and combatants from both sides. Surviving unjust imprisonment, as a teenager, he has taken a dangerous journey en route to safety, not knowing what would await him—life or death. Eventually, after a decade plus years in a country of refuge, he makes it to live in New York City. Mr. and Mrs. Caleb, the unconditionally loving parents whom he calls ‘Grandpa’ and ‘Grandma,’ adopt him. Because of the dedicated parental supervision at the public and home-school high school, Hayet is later accepted into an Ivy League university in New York with a full scholarship. In college, due to the absence of relentless supervision by the Calebs and his overconfidence too strong to fall he ends where he wouldn’t want to be. He treats his life like a tossed pair of dice, which has a probability of one in six of landing on the randomly determined integer that Hayet never guesses beforehand. He does not see the possibility of five-sixths of the integers backfiring on him. To distract him from chastity walk, Angel nick named, a beautiful student issues him a decisive ultimatum: sleep with her or else she will spread a rumor that he is gay. On the fateful day of Hayet’s proposed fall to give in to her demand, the two engage into an emotional purposeful conversation which God changed her pain into gain, whereby she reveals she once was a dedicated Christian.
Hayet continues to struggle at school and in social life prioritizing fun over fulfillment. Dr. Tracy, a dishonest professor suspends him when he remained a couple of months to graduate. He leaves college and works unfulfilling jobs. Haunted by his inability to overcome his failures, he wonders what he could have been if he were to prioritize his life.
Emily, his antagonist, whom he ultimately would marry consistently tells him what he did not want to hear at a time when he needed to hear it. It took him three decades to understand what intentional living is.
Author Yakob Adhanom has the ambition to tell readers Hayet’s story on faith-filled real events that made him to be who he is today and could awaken a greater purpose in readers life.
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