Via Negativa A Novel
epub | 800.9 KB | English | Author :Daniel Hornsby | B082S2VRT4 | 2020 | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Book Description :

"A beautiful and meditative exploration of shattered faith." -Brit Bennett, author of The Vanishing Half
A heartfelt, daring, divinely hilarious debut novel about a priest who embarks on a fateful journey with a pistol in his pocket and an injured coyote in his backseat.
Father Dan is homeless. Dismissed by his conservative diocese for eccentricity and insubordination, he's made his exile into a kind of pilgrimage, transforming his Toyota Camry into a mobile monk's cell. Like the ascetic religious philosophers he idolizes, he intends to spend his trip in peaceful contemplation. But then he sees a minivan sideswipe a coyote. Unable to suppress his Franciscan impulses, he takes the wild animal in, wrapping its broken leg with an old T-shirt and feeding it Spam with a plastic spoon.
With his unexpected canine companion in the backseat, Dan makes his way west, encountering other offbeat travelers and stopping to take in the occasional roadside...

Category : | Dark Humor, Animal Fiction, Literary Sagas