Faith by Jennifer Haigh

Faith by Jennifer Haigh – 336 pages

When Sheila McGann sets out to redeem her disgraced brother, a once-beloved Catholic priest in suburban Boston, her quest will force her to confront cataclysmic truths about her fractured Irish-American family, her beliefs, and, ultimately, herself. Award-winning author Jennifer Haigh follows her critically acclaimed novels Mrs. Kimble and The Condition with a captivating, vividly rendered portrait of fraying family ties, and the trials of belief and devotion, in Faith.

I hate that I didn’t love this book as much as so many others did. I love the author’s descriptions and use of vivid language however I felt she told me the story instead of showed me the story through words.
It took about 100 pages of “back story” to get to the real story which I really was annoyed with, however once the story got going I found it complex and interesting.
I learned quite a bit about the church, life as a priest and the test of faith in general.