The Purple Onion is a book that every person should be able to relate to. It's a story that deals with significant moments that present themselves to a person over their lifetime, some of which become totally life altering. The author points out a number of these specific circumstances that had a tremendous impact on his life but which he thought for many years were just random events. It was only much later in life that he began to see these events as the hand of God at work in his life.