![]() Sheila is far more ambivalent-she’s a nonbeliever who has always struggled to understand her brother’s devotion, and yet she’s the only one who is able to see the truth of his character in its complexity. ![]() ![]() What’s so compelling about Faith is its emphasis on Art’s family-his mother believes her son is beyond reproach, while his younger brother is intent on securing clear proof of either guilt or innocence. With thematic echoes of **John Patrick Shanley’**s Doubt and the atmospheric tension of a Dennis Lehane thriller, Haigh’s exploration of the private aftershocks that follow a public scandal feels unusually resonant and humane. Told from the gimlet-eyed point of view of his sister, Sheila, a woman long estranged from their devout Irish Catholic clan, this moral mystery story pursues the truth behind the accusations-and, unwittingly, opens a walk-in closetful of family skeletons. ![]() “The truth is rarely pure and never simple,” wrote Oscar Wilde, a sentiment that underscores PEN/Hemingway Award-winner **Jennifer Haigh’**s ripped-from-the-headlines fourth novel, Faith, which is, at its purest and simplest level, the story of a beloved Boston priest who is accused of the unspeakable (and, by now, all-too-familiar) offense. ![]()
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