- Tom Frist has recently published two new books
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‘The Way of Shalom’ is the story of an author’s enduring friendship with characters from his three previous novels based in Brazil, Nicaragua, Syria, and Turkey. Introducing them to each other, he joins them in an exciting international adventure. It is a book which deals with family dilemmas like impossible romance, alienation, death, and inheritance. It also a book about societal problems like war, genocide, refugees, the clash of religions, leprosy, and stigma. But most of all, it is a book which highlights the desire to make one’s life count and to find shalom--wholeness, well-being, harmony, and peace.
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'After the Grass Has Withered!' is a small book of advice for young people as they begin to navigate life’s choices from worldview to practical decisions. Given from a Christian perspective, the author hopes that the tips he has found to be true during his 80 years of living in nine different countries will help his family members and other young adults lead lives of integrity, purpose, meaning, service, and joy.
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About the Author
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Thomas Ferran Frist has spent much of his life promoting the health, relief, rehabilitation, and economic development of people worldwide. He has worked with camp and street kids, taught at a university in India on a Fulbright scholarship, set up wartime refugee programs in Vietnam as a UNICEF field director, has been a psychiatric aide at Yale, and has done extensive social research in Tanzania and Brazil. He has also founded and directed local and national organizations for the disabled in Brazil, been a WHO-PAHO consultant, served as the president of international organizations for Hansen's disease (leprosy) in the U.S. and Europe, established an economic development program in Nicaragua, and contributed as a college board member and volunteer in NGOs in the U.S. He is the author of ten books, including four novels and has contributed a chapter to a textbook on Leprosy as well as articles to scientific journals. Tom and his wife, Clare, have two children, five grandchildren, and many other beloved extended family members and friends. They mostly divide their time between their home in Montreat, North Carolina, and their family and projects in the USA, Brazil, and Central America. More information about him, his organizations, and his other books can be found in other sections of this website.
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