A timely new novel evocative of the biblical story of the beheading of John the Baptist by a major American writer.
Hugh Helton, a prosperous attorney in a progressive town, has married his brother's ex-wife, Nora. As Hugh negotiates his relationships with his new spouse, her daughter, Jean, and parish priest Father John Riley, Nora s growing hate for the church into which they were all born and from which they have all lapsed drives her to desperate acts of deceit and manipulation.
Father Riley himself wrestles with his own sense of purpose and mission. But when...
A timely new novel evocative of the biblical story of the beheading of John the Baptist by a major American writer.
In the fall of 1960, Douglas Bragg decided to take a trip through the South with no particular destination in mind. And so the journey begins for the young hero of legendary writer Madison Jones's newest novel, The Adventures of Douglas Bragg. Leaving his native Birmingham to see a world more interesting than his own, college man Bragg sets out on his hitchhiking trip. Before long, he is picked up by a salesman who seems normal enough-that is, until Bragg meets the salesman's mother. This sets off a series of events that alternates between the utterly ridiculous and the potentially...
In the fall of 1960, Douglas Bragg decided to take a trip through the South with no particular destination in mind. And so the journey begins for the ...
