Warren Harlan Pease, the young narrator of this spellbinding novel, returns to his native New Hampshire from the Iraq War, he spends an entire day with Jesus, visiting and contemplating his own life with fresh eyes and a willing heart. He examines his relationships to those he loves - his girlfriend, his best friend, his father, his dead mother, his daughter - and grapples with the pain he has been carrying since the death of his mother when he was still a boy. This work of compassion and healing grace will resonate with skeptics and believers, be shared and discussed between friends and among families. 

A review of The Last Day on BookPage reads, in part, "James Landis' novel is haunting and beautiful, rippling with skillfully intertwined themes of faith, love, religion and war. . . .  Reading The Last Day is like sharing [the young narrator's] thoughts, as if the story were a memoir rather than a novel.  But it is a novel, and an exceptional one. Landis writes with mastery and grace, weaving together fiction and philosophy with profound beauty. Through an ordinary hero, Landis has crafted an extraordinary literary work."

James Landis is the author of the novels Lying in Bed, which won the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; Longing, which was a New York Times Notable Book; and Artist of the Beautiful. He has also published six novels for young readers, including The Sisters Impossible, which was an International Reading Association Children's Choice, and a book of poetry, Cars on Mars and 49 Other Poems for Kids on Earth. Landis worked in book publishing for many years and was Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of William Morrow & Company in New York. p He lives in Exeter, New Hampshire.