Wallowa County tops NY Times' bestsellers People are coming to Wallowa County as if they were going to Lourdes - but they're not looking for physical healing, they're looking for spiritual healing. They're looking for an unnamed road that goes straight north. Somewhere up there, they hope to find a shack - where they may meet God. One Oregon man has already met God in the shack and written about it. That man is a former Christian minister and the son of Evangelical missionaries, William P. Young. His account of that meeting with God is recounted in his best selling book "The Shack." The story told in that book is a horrific one. It concerns the kidnap of a child whose family is vacationing at Wallowa Lake. The child is later murdered in a shack somewhere in the Hells Canyon Wilderness north of Imnaha. There follows the descent of the family into a different Hellish canyon - a canyon of grief they call "The Great Sadness." The book chronicles the journey of the father, Mack, as he finds a way to transcend this Great Sadness through an entirely new understanding of the nature of God....