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I love how this book is fiction, but she has based many of the stories Mary tells on recorded Marion apparitions from around the world. It won the... (show more)
Our Lady of the Lost and Found
On an otherwise typical Monday morning, a middle-aged writer enters her living room and finds a woman standing by her fig tree. The woman is wearing a blue trench coat, white sneakers, and a white shawl over her hair. She is holding a purse and a suitcase. She is the Virgin Mary-and after 2000 years of petition, adoration, and traveling, she's in need of a little R&R. Invited in for lunch, Mary decides to stay for one week, during which an unlikely friendship develops. As our narrator learns ... (show more)
On an otherwise typical Monday morning, a middle-aged writer enters her living room and finds a woman standing by her fig tree. The woman is wearing a blue trench coat, white sneakers, and a white shawl over her hair. She is holding a purse and a suitcase. She is the Virgin Mary-and after 2000 years of petition, adoration, and traveling, she's in need of a little R&R. Invited in for lunch, Mary decides to stay for one week, during which an unlikely friendship develops. As our narrator learns the remarkable history of one of the most influential and complex women of all time, she is moved to examine life's big questions and her own capacity for faith. Witty and gently ironic, this inventive novel is an inspiration to believers and nonbelievers alike. (show less)
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Is this all it takes to write a books these days? There is ABSOLUTELY no story. The author flaked out, got lazy, and decided to fill her book wi... (show more)
Is this all it takes to write a books these days? There is ABSOLUTELY no story. The author flaked out, got lazy, and decided to fill her book with more historical facts and anecdotes about previously documented visitations by the Virgin Mary. She and Dan Brown should hook up and just plagiarize every history book available in their local Chapters.
What there was of a story, or plausible plot, was at best mediocre. It fascinates me that she has won the Governal Generals Award for Fiction! How! I would want to read that book to see how much of a story she actually contributed without the aid of several text books. Now don't get me wrong, I appreciate an author that immerses themselves into the necessary research to back up historical settings, styles, language etc...
I don't advocate the use of re-wording of previously documented Mary sightings to it sounds like your telling a new story.
The only bright spot (in an otherwise dreary premise) in this book was that if you are unfamilar with any facet of Catholicism this novel will bring you right up to speed. I am not Catholic. My wife is. I now know more about saints, sightings of the Virgin Mary and some of the dogma then she does. Another interesting point is that it may have the power to restore some faith in the afterlife. That much documented history it is pretty hard to ignore. The bare truth is that SOMETHING greater than ourselves is at work. Unfortunately the only miracle this book may perform is a weeping cover.
Not for the sins of the souls here on the earth, but for the sheer crappiness of this book. (show less)
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I found this book very slow in sections, but I really enjoyed the writing in other sections. This book has made me want to find out more about Marian apparitions, since I have always been very skeptical of their veracity. Maybe there's some truth to some of them after all.
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For a work of fiction there is an awful lot of history in this book. I felt like I was reading a research paper rather than a novel.
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