Review: Beautiful story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 23, 2013
"Bishop Street" by Rene D. Schultz is the beautiful story four orphans that reunite many years after one of them left the orphanage behind at the age of 18. Riddled with guilt and longing the now successful writer Maggie decides to hire a private investigator to locate her three particularly good friends.The handsome and charismatic investigator finds all three of them and helps with the meetings that Maggie has with each of the three individually.There are sad and tragic excursions into their painful past but also wonderful memories revisited and together the reunited friends help each other to bring the ghosts of the past and present to rest.Schultz has written great characters who you feel for, all very different and each bringing a new angle to the story. She gives us enough pain to see what life in some orphanages can be like, what life as an orphan can mean and how people can struggle all of their life to come to terms with having no family. But she also shows how this hardship can be overcome, how our protagonists have survived and have found their own new families.This is a bitter sweet story with hope and redemption.