The story is told from both ends - an idealistic Jesuit monk bonding with his close-knit group of friends, and this same monk, broken almost beyond recognition, after his return from a first-contact mission gone horribly awry.
I don't want to say too much lest I spoil anything, but this is definitely a first-rate book, which I highly recommend! It is rough but very powerful and poignant.
Jesse's review here
Dad's review here
Agree with your comments! And you have forgotten that, in this family, this book was first read by Jesse (who reviewed it) and then I read it and posted a separate review - so who needs "Comments" when we can have full reviews!
ReplyDeleteI was surprised to see that "searing" is one of the labels that we have adopted for the blog...so I clicked on it and was further surprised to see how many books we have read that are tagged this way. Finally, I was amused to find a recounting of the humorous way in which "searing" came to be a label here - see comments to Ironweed!
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