Sweet Jesus.

Sweet Jesus.

By
Pountney, Christine.

Publication Date
2012

Subject Term
Siblings -- Fiction.
 
Families -- Fiction.
 
Self-realization -- Fiction.
 
Adopted children -- Fiction.
 
Canadian fiction.

Summary
Connie Foster, a mother of three young children, learns that her husband?s attempt to maintain their lifestyle has led them to financial ruin. Her sister, Hannah Crowe, a writer, desperately wants to have a child but the man she loves is determined not to. Zeus Ortega, their much younger adopted brother, who left the family home when he was only fifteen, is living in Chicago with his boyfriend and working as a therapeutic clown in a children?s hospital. Prompted by a heartbreaking loss, he quits his job and decides to search for his birth parents in New Mexico. Together, the three siblings head south and, on the way, they visit a mega church in Wichita, Kansas, where their mother, Rose, once had a powerful faith experience, and where they are confronted by the politics of the evangelical right. What unfolds is a captivating story about three people bound by family ties and caught between loyalty and desire, searching for wholeness and finding something more real in its place.

Language
English

ISBN
9780771071225


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