Perhaps it is a cheap trick to make me perilously sad about the misfortunes of a character I have been set up to identify and fall in love with, but I found their tragedies both incredibly moving and closer to my heart than I expected. I'd like to believe this is an indictment of a religion that creates such miserable creatures, but it is nowhere near that simple, which is another source of its power, its ability to accept, and indeed revel in, the complexity of its subject.

very good 10 out of 10

Weird Anglican fable about religion's saving grace.

Good stuff.