North of Hope
After 20 years in the priesthood, Father Frank Healy goes to Minnesota's Basswood Reservation to bring Catholicism to the Ojibway Indians. He finds only a few believers--and the woman from his past, Libby Girard. As events erupt in a tangle of drugs, despair, alcoholism, and death, Healy is...
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After 20 years in the priesthood, Father Frank Healy goes to Minnesota's Basswood Reservation to bring Catholicism to the Ojibway Indians. He finds only a few believers--and the woman from his past, Libby Girard. As events erupt in a tangle of drugs, despair, alcoholism, and death, Healy is tested by his continuing love for Libby.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780345369116 (0345369114)
Publish date: October 13th 1991
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pages no: 435
Edition language: English
Lovely. Jon Hassler is sort of the Richard Russo of Northern Minnesota. I would happily have read an entire book about these characters as teenagers. I was just so charmed by the Linden Falls of 1950, but Hassler had a different story to tell. After introducing us to Frank and Libby as youngsters, h...
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