Waiting Impatiently

A Novel by Andrew H. Housley

“Always starting over again. Wanting. Waiting. And expecting nothing.”


In Waiting Impatiently, Andrew H. Housley delivers a gritty, lyrical exploration of personal transformation amid spiritual desolation. The novel follows Ian, a man fractured by heartbreak, haunted by memory, and barely tethered to the world around him. When the chaos of a pandemic strips away his final illusions, Ian finds unlikely refuge in a place he dubs The Monastery, where the rhythms of ritual, community, and silence give him a second chance to confront his past and heal his soul.

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Through intimate prose and visceral honesty, Housley crafts a narrative that dances between darkness and light, regret and redemption. Drawing from Zen philosophy, yoga, and raw human vulnerability, Ian’s journey unfolds not in dramatic highs, but in quiet revelations—the kind found in gardens, in grief, in the whisper of a heron, and in the echoes of unspoken love.

Themes:

• Self-transformation through sorrow

• The sacred in the mundane

• Masculinity, vulnerability, and spiritual rebirth

• The tension between isolation and connection

• Yoga and mindful embodiment as a means of healing
   

Praise for Waiting Impatiently:

“Housley’s debut is a soul-rattling journey of emotional reckoning and reluctant rebirth—equal parts poetic and profane.”

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“Brave, unflinching, and deeply human. A rare novel that dares to explore masculinity, shame, and grace without filter.”

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“A philosophical fever dream with the beating heart of a wounded healer.”

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“This is not a redemption arc—it’s a resurrection.”