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ID: 581364
Title: Bedrock Faith: A Novel
Author: Eric Charles May
Narrator: Kenneth Toles
Format: Unabridged
Length: 13:17:15
Language: English
Release date: 02-22-22
Publisher: Findaway Voices
Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody
Summary:
An ex-convict returns to his Chicago community a changed manbut maybe not for the betterin this vivid, suspenseful, funny, and compassionate novel (Booklist).
One of Booklists Top 10 First Novels of the Year
One of Roxane Gays Top 10 Books of the Year
After fourteen years in prison, Gerald Stew Pot Reeves, age thirty-one, returns home to live with his mom in Parkland, a black middle-class neighborhood on Chicagos South Side. The residents are in a tailspin, dreading the arrival of the man they remember as a frightening delinquent. The anxiety only grows when Stew Pot announces that he experienced a religious awakening in prison.
Most folks are skeptical, with one notable exception: Mrs. Motley, a widowed retired librarian and the Reeves next-door neighbor, who loans Stew Pot a Bible, which is seen by him and many in the community as a friendly gesture. With uncompromising fervor (and with a new pit bull named John the Baptist), Stew Pot soon appoints himself the moral judge of Parklandand starts wreaking havoc on peoples lives. Before long, tension and suspicion reign, and this close-knit community must reckon with questions of faith, fear, and forgiveness . . .
[A] novel of epiphanies, tragedies, and transformations . . . perfect for book clubs. Booklist, starred review
May slowly builds suspense as he persuasively unfolds the narrative in this work that reads like an Agatha Christie mystery. Library Journal
A wonderful urban novel full of vitality and pathos and grit. Dennis Lehane
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