Parade’s Top Summer Reading Pick: A Novel About Sex Abuse in the Catholic Church
Opening up the Sunday paper might lead you to the national newspaper supplement Parade Magazine, which devoted its July 10 edition to “Summer Reading” picks. Smack-dab in the middle of the issue is “12 Great Summer Books: PARADE's picks of terrific new reads, in no particular order.” But that's not exactly true, since the first six are fiction, and the second six are nonfiction. Somehow it's not shocking that the number-one recommended book is “Faith” by Jennifer Haigh, a novel about a Catholic priest in Boston accused of molestation during the scandal's heyday in the last decade. Publishers Weekly advised, “Although this all-too-plausible story offers a damning commentary on the Church's flaws and its leaders' hubris, Haigh is concerned less with religious faith than with the faith [the accused priest] Arthur's family has — and loses, and in some cases regains — in one another.” The Wall Street Journal didn't find that much hope:
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