Rebecca Martin is a single mother with an apartment to rent and a sense that she has used up her illusions. I had the romantic thing with my first husband, thank you very much, she tells a hapless suitor. Im thirtyeight years old, and Ive got a daughter learning to read and a job I dont quite like. I dont need the violin music. But when the new tenant in her inlaw apartment turns out to be Michael Christopher, on the lam after twenty years in a monastery and smack dab in the middle of a dark night of the soul, Rebecca begins to suspect that she is not as thoroughly disillusioned as she had thought.Her daughter, Mary Martha, is delighted with the new arrival, as is Rebeccas mother, Phoebe, a rollicking widow making a new life for herself among the spiritual eccentrics of the coastal town of Bolinas. Even Rebeccas best friend, Bonnie, once a confirmed cynic in matters of the heart, urges Rebecca on. But none of them, Rebecca feels, understands how complicated and dangerous love actually is.As her unlikely friendship with the exmonk grows toward something deeper, and Michael wrestles with his despair while adjusting to a second career flipping hamburgers at McDonalds, Rebecca struggles with her own temptation to hope. But it is not until she is brought up short by the realities of life and death that she begins to glimpse the real mystery of love, and the unfathomable depths of faith.Beautifully written and playfully engaging, this novel. is about one man wrestling with his...

Binding: Paperback;320 pages; Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers; Classification: FA; Weight: 360 g; Dimensions: 202 x 137 x 19

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