The Shack

I've recently finished a #1 NY Times Bestseller book titled The Shack by William P. Young. Although it may help people create a picture and understand what The Trinity is, it also creates a vortex of confusion. The book's heretical view of the Trinity and the use of graven imagery doesn't correlate to what I've been taught as a student of the Christian faith.
The book is about a man, Mack, and the tragic murder of his daughter, Missy. He doubts God for a long time and after a few years, he receives a letter from God asking Mack to meet Him at the shack where the brutal death of his daughter took place. Mack reluctantly goes and meets God at the shack and the book describes the conversation Mack has with The Trinity. By the end of the book Mack ends up forgiving God for allowing bad things to happen. Unfortunately, I do not recommend this book to anyone.
After the release of this book, many Christians everywhere were amazed, exclaiming, "Wow, this is such a great book! Now we understand The Trinity!" No you don't. In the book, Young portrays God The Father as a big black woman named "Papa", Jesus as himself with an accurate Middle-Eastern description, and The Holy Spirit as a young Asian woman named Sarayu. One of the Ten Commandments is "Do not make a graven image of God". What's a graven image? It's taking the invisible God and trying to make Him visible, to make Him him a part of creation. In John 4, Jesus says, "God is Spirit." He's talking about God The Father, who doesn't have a physical body. God The Father wasn't a man, God The Son became a man. In the book, Papa says, "I am truly human through Jesus." That couldn't be farther from the truth! Jesus, the Son, came down and died on the cross for us, not God The Father. God The Father didn't conquer death, that was God The Son.
I'm not trying to bash on this author or the book because Mr. Young had the right intentions. I just feel that the book contradicts what the Bible says.