Patience never wants Wonder to enter the house: because Wonder is a wretched guest. It uses all of you but is not careful with what is most fragile or irreplaceable. If it breaks you, it shrugs and moves on. Without asking,Wonder often brings along dubious friends: doubt, jealousy, greed.

Vincent Ettrich, an engaging philanderer, discovers that he has died and come back tO life - buthe has no idea why, or any memory of the expenence. Beset by peculiar omens and strange characters, including a talking rat, he gradually discovers that he was deliberately brought back by his one true love. Isabelle, because she is pregnant with their son - a child who, if correctly raised, will play+a crucial role in saving the cosmic mosaic that is the universe.

But to be brought up right, he must be educated by his own father. Specifically, he must be taught what Ettrich learned on the other side - if only Ettrich himself can remember it!Tempting and provocative, White Apples is forbidden fruit plucked straight from the orchard of Jonathan Carroll's abundant and legendary imagination.