Review: An Emotional Roller Coaster of Discovery
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 15, 2014
Bishop Street by Rene D. Schultz is a contemporary novel about the heartbreak and joy of four young orphans who are reunited decades later.This poignant story is about the author Maggie, mother Elizabeth, lost child Lucy, and successful Randolph, and Maggie’s efforts to reconnect with her scattered orphanage friends decades later. A cruel orphanage worker purposely kept her letters away from Maggie’s childhood friends when she left the Bishop Street Orphanage at eighteen years old.Convinced that the others had deserted her, Maggie forged ahead and created a life as a successful author. But the lingering emotional scars of the childhood abuse at the hands of the orphanage workers, and the hurtful abandonment of her friends, spurs the lonely Maggie to hire a detective to find them. What follows is an emotional roller coaster of discovery. Bishop Street is an absorbing study of the myriad ways people cope with childhood abuse and neglect.This story surprised with showing how people achieve success by drawing strength from their well of childhood misery. Of these four abandoned children, some floundered, others found supporting mentors, but all drew on the desperation that forged their childhood friendship. Schultz has created a satisfying story about despair and hope. Maggie’s friendships kept her going even in the darkest times, and Bishop Street is a well-written examination of the power of perseverance that lives inside all of us.