Faith jennifer haigh review5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() A high school English teacher in Philadelphia, Sheila travels to Boston when her half brother, Art, is asked to leave his position in the Boston Archdiocese after an allegation of sexual abuse. Haigh’s protagonist, Sheila McGann, is the perfect storyteller about an Irish Catholic family living in Boston in 2002, during the height of the church’s pedophile scandals. When fiction is written in the first person, I love when the narrator sounds completely authentic and the author fades into the background, making it seem like a memoir. Ernest Hemingway once said that a writer should “convey everything to the reader so that he remembers it not as a story he had read but something that happened to himself.” As a reader, I don’t always need to feel like the story has happened to me, but I do enjoy feeling like it really happened to the narrator. ![]()
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