Helpful Score: 14
Absolutely hauntingly written, with many, complex religious ideas. Reading this was like being the first car in a train; I watched other cars (ideas, characters) added on, one by one, each different and strange, but slowly growing used to them. At one point, I looked back and saw an insane mess and realized the train was about to crash. And it does - no one in this book remains untouched by the emotions and actions of another person. Recommended for lovers of complex ethical and love entanglement stories.
Helpful Score: 1
Not an easy read by any means, but well worth the effort. I look forward to reading more from this author.
Helpful Score: 1
Priests and underage surfer boys, pregnancies, miscarriages, abortion, famous and infamous saints, midlife crises, teenage angst. The female protagonist touches all those bases (or is touched/broadsided by them) as Callanan shows us life seen through the eyes of a fiftyish Catholic school teacher still looking for love after 3 divorces.
Thoroughly enjoyable.
Thoroughly enjoyable.
