Bonsai wasn't Really That Big of a hill

Headline: Pat McCool’s newly released “Bonsai Wasn’t Really That Big of a Hill: One Man’s Walk Toward God” is a tender, entertaining memoir of a comedian’s quest for meaning. 

Summary of the release: “Bonsai Wasn’t Really That Big of a Hill: One Man’s Walk Toward God” from Christian Faith Publishing author Pat McCool is a humorous, poignant autobiography that traces the author’s life from a military-family boyhood wasted on juvenile delinquency and self destruction, his eventual two-decade success in big business, and his subsequent quest to discover God, joy, and fulfillment, which required him to give up everything, including his comfortable life and prestigious job in Mississippi, to travel to New York to make it as a stand-up comic.

Full release text: “Bonsai Wasn’t Really That Big of a Hill: One Man’s Walk Toward God”: a wise and tender memoir of a Christian stand-up comedian. “Bonsai Wasn’t Really That Big of a Hill” is the creation of published author Pat McCool, a former Fortune 500 corporate executive turned comedian, actor, and writer living with his wife and their dogs in New York City. 

McCool writes about the inciting incident of his life as he knows it, “About ten minutes later, my teacher glanced toward the back of the room with a concerned look on her face. Water was seeping under the door into the classroom. She walked to the bathroom to find five overflowing sinks and the floor covered with water. It didn’t take them long to clean it up, and for some reason there was no intensive manhunt to find the culprit. So I got away with it. This was not good. A couple of months later, a letter arrived in the mail. It was a letter that would change my life. We all have moments that change our lives, and they usually don’t happen at a preconceived time or highly anticipated event. They happen on a random Tuesday at four thirty in the afternoon when you’re not expecting it. The letter was my father’s new assignment. He was going to Vietnam. We were going to Mississippi.” 

Published by Christian Faith Publishing, Pat McCool’s new book is an intimate journey into the makings of a man and a professional stand-up comic portrayed in the numerous moments he finds himself stepping out of the box—or being shoved out of it.

With a generous heart and ample wit, McCool provides an honest scope of his dare-to- dream life that is not just instructive and insightful but irresistibly entertaining.

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Consumers can purchase “Bonsai Wasn’t Really That Big of a Hill: One Man’s Walk toward God” at traditional brick & mortar bookstores, or online at Amazon.com, Apple iTunes store, or Barnes and Noble.