Douglas Alan Walrath's astute survey of American novels about clergy is essential reading for budding pastors—as well as
for anybody who wants to understand why we American
clergy are the way we are.
In 1921, a Methodist minister fatally shot the most prominent Catholic
priest in Birmingham, Alabama. Sharon Davies’s book makes vivid the
pervasive anti-Catholicism of the early 20th-century South.
Olga Grushin offers her characters the dignity of their dreams. She is not impatient with their restless searching, and she does not dictate an outcome.