![]() ![]() ![]() At its broadest, this is a frank and timely story of familial and institutional heredity at its most personal, the novel is a devastating portrait of a priest who discovers that he's also a man. Although this all-too-plausible story offers a damning commentary on the Church's flaws and its leaders' hubris, Haigh is concerned less with religious faith than with the faith Arthur's family has-and loses, and in some cases regains-in one another. Kimble and The Condition with a captivating, vividly rendered portrait of fraying family ties, and the trials of belief anddevotion, in Faith. Arthur's younger half-sister, Sheila, in a quasi-omniscient style, narrates the complicated, devastating history that shaped Arthur's life, both personally and spiritually. Award-winning author Jennifer Haigh follows hercritically acclaimed novels Mrs. Sophisticated and worldly in many ways, utterly childlike in others, Arthur is unprepared to cope with secular life when he's accused of abusing a young boy and is subsequently asked to leave his parish. ![]() Arthur Breen became a priest when such a career path was considered a logical, honorable choice for an intelligent young Catholic man. Set in 2002 amid the sexual abuse crisis that has rocked the Catholic Church, and particularly the Boston archdiocese, Haigh's novel reaches far beneath the headlines to imagine the impact of allegations on one priest's family. Kimble) explores the intersections of public scandal and personal tragedy in her superb fourth novel. A suspenseful tale of one womans quest for the truth, Faith is a haunting meditation on loyalty and family, doubt and belief. ![]()
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