![]() ![]() Stories of practical spirituality have been everywhere in my reading lately. All he could do was listen, accompany, be present, put himself in the same vulnerable position, walk with." "She looked at Christopher with a wan smile, and his heart broke a little for her bravery, her strength, her faith," Kessler writes. In Brad Kessler's fine new novel, North (the Overlook Press, $26), the seemingly disparate lives that converge on a snowy Vermont night-Sahro, a Somali refugee seeking asylum, and Father Christopher, the abbot of a mountain monastery-are woven together with intricate threads of home, flight, sanctuary, danger, hope, faith, storytelling and much more. ![]() Spiritual people making hard, practical decisions I'm always intrigued by their stories. ![]()
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