Faith
It is the spring of 2002 and a perfect storm has hit Boston. Across the city’s archdiocese, trusted priests have been accused of the worst possible betrayal of the souls in their care. Estranged for years from her difficult and demanding family, Sheila McGann has remained close to her older...
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It is the spring of 2002 and a perfect storm has hit Boston. Across the city’s archdiocese, trusted priests have been accused of the worst possible betrayal of the souls in their care. Estranged for years from her difficult and demanding family, Sheila McGann has remained close to her older brother, Art, the popular, dynamic pastor of a large suburban parish. When Art finds himself at the center of the maelstrom, Sheila returns to Boston, ready to fight for him and his reputation. But what she discovers is more complicated than she imagined as the scandal forces long-buried secrets to surface. Elegantly crafted and sharply observed, Jennifer Haigh’s Faith is a haunting meditation on loyalty and family that demonstrates how the truth can shatter our deepest beliefs—and restore them.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780060755812 (0060755814)
Publish date: January 17th 2012
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Well-written enough to keep me reading until 01h30 in the morning so I could finish it. I guessed early on what had really happened, so perhaps that influenced my feeling of the end being not as good as the beginning and middle of the book. Sheila, the narrator, and her half-brother Art were somewha...
This was an entertaining, quick read. Interesting premise of the atheist sister of a priest narrating the fall of her brother. I was prepared for Art to be innocent; certainly Kath Conlon is set up as a villian of sorts. I was not prepared for Art to have had an affair with Kath and so kudos to Ha...
Everything you've heard about this book is true. It's beautifully written, complicated, conflicting, confusing, emotional, mesmerizing, and captivating.I avoided this when it first came out because I usually can't stomach any kind of child abuse stuff, especially sexual abuse. Having grown up Cathol...
Its actually a bit sad that the first thing that comes to mind about the Catholic Church in the 21st century for many people is the pedophile-priests scandals. Granted, one reason for that is that the Church has, in many respects, handled the whole thing poorly - shuffling accused perpetrators to n...
The truth behind national headlines is never quite as simple as the media would have the public believe. In Faith, Jennifer Haigh explores the details and the truth behind the stories of child abuse in the Catholic church. A difficult subject at any time, Ms. Haigh also adds to that the complexity o...
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