Million Miles in a Thousand Years

Full of beautiful, heart-wrenching, and hilarious stories, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years details one man's opportunity to edit his life as if he were a character in a movie.

Years after writing a best-selling memoir, Donald Miller went into a funk and spent months sleeping in and avoiding his publisher. One story had ended, and Don was unsure how to start another.

But he gets rescued by two movie producers who want to make a movie based on his memoir. When they start fictionalizing Don's life for film--changing a meandering memoir into a structured narrative--the real-life Don starts a journey to edit his actual life into a better story. A Million Miles in a Thousand Years details that journey and challenges readers to reconsider what they strive for in life. It shows how to get a second chance at life the first time around.

Pub. Date:  September 2009
View more by Donald Miller

Staff Review
"Miller has gifted us with his autobiography, written in the same style of blunt honesty and laugh-out-loud humour as Blue Like Jazz (his New York Times bestseller).  Miller allows us to travel alongside him as he searches for meaning in his life.  His stories and the lessons he learns parallel his journey of making a movie out of his besteller.  Miller shares his discoveries of what makes life meaningful, worthwhile, and a story worth telling.  He says, "the principles that make up a good story are important because the same principles that make a good story also make a good life."  Enjoy this book!  Miller has a grift of writing in a way that allows his reader to feel with him, so laugh, be nervous, but also let this book challenge you to make your life a story with meaning -- a story worth telling."    --- Meagan