The crooked heart of mercy / Billie Livingston.
Publication details: Toronto : Random Hhouse Canada , 2016Description: 261 p. ; 21 cmISBN:- 9780345815385 (hardcover) :
- [Fic] 23
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Fiction | Hanover Public Library Shelves | FIC LIVI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31906001021568 |
Browsing Hanover Public Library shelves, Shelving location: Shelves Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)
FIC LIVE The flight of Gemma Hardy : a novel / | FIC LIVE Mercury : a novel / | FIC LIVE The boy in the field : a novel / | FIC LIVI The crooked heart of mercy / | FIC LLOY Starting from scratch / | FIC LOCK No one is talking about this / | FIC LOES The last Russian doll / |
"The Crooked Heart of Mercy is a brave, funny and heartbreaking novel about faith and family, love and forgiveness, and how people survive unimaginable loss. It features an indelible trio of characters who could only come from the imagination of Billie Livingston. There's Ben, whose world we enter on the first page: he's a limo driver who, after he loses his son, finds himself locked up in a psych ward with a hole in his head he can't explain. His wife, Maggie, the other narrator of the story, is locked up in her own grief, unable to reach out to her husband. Then there is Maggie's brother, Francis, an unlikely priest with a drinking problem and only occasional interest in celibacy, whose latest fall from the wagon was caught on video and has gone viral as Drunk Priest Propositions Cop. How they come together to heal each other's many wounds is the magic of this novel, as is its intensity, its wit, its deep sense of the absurd, and the surprising grace at its core."--From publisher.
CDN rm
There are no comments on this title.