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"This gentle, gorgeously written book may be one of my favorites
ever." --Jenna Bush Hager (A Today show "Read with Jenna" Book Club
Selection!) "A thoughtful, beautiful multigenerational novel about
love, God, jealousy, and friendship." --Elizabeth Gilbert, author
of Eat, Pray, Love "A moving portrait of love and friendship set
against a backdrop of social change." --The New York Times Book
Review (Editor's Choice) "Here is the power of the novel in its
simplest, richest form: bearing intimate witness to human beings
grappling with their faith and falling in love. That Wall executes
it so beautifully? Well, this is exactly why we read literary
fiction...The best book about faith in recent memory."
--Entertainment Weekly (A-) Charles and Lily, James and Nan. They
meet in Greenwich Village in 1963 when Charles and James are
jointly hired to steward the historic Third Presbyterian Church
through turbulent times. Their personal differences however,
threaten to tear them apart. Charles is destined to succeed his
father as an esteemed professor of history at Harvard, until an
unorthodox lecture about faith leads him to ministry. How then, can
he fall in love with Lily--fiercely intellectual, elegantly
stern--after she tells him with certainty that she will never
believe in God? And yet, how can he not? James, the youngest son in
a hardscrabble Chicago family, spent much of his youth angry at his
alcoholic father and avoiding his anxious mother. Nan grew up in
Mississippi, the devout and beloved daughter of a minister and a
debutante. James's escape from his desperate circumstances leads
him to Nan and, despite his skepticism of hope in all its forms,
her gentle, constant faith changes the course of his life. In The
Dearly Beloved, we follow these two couples through decades of love
and friendship, jealousy and understanding, forgiveness and
commitment. Against the backdrop of turbulent changes facing the
city and the church's congregation, these four forge improbable
paths through their evolving relationships, each struggling with
uncertainty, heartbreak, and joy. A poignant meditation on faith
and reason, marriage and children, and the ways we find meaning in
our lives, Cara Wall's The Dearly Beloved is a gorgeous, wise, and
provocative novel that is destined to become a classic.
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