num_pages: 336
description: In this stunning novel about judgment courage heartbreak and change author Silas House wrestles with the limits of belief and the infinite ways to love. In the aftermath of a flood that washes away much of a small Tennessee town evangelical preacher Asher Sharp offers shelter to two gay men. In doing so he starts to see his life anewand risks losing everything: his wife locked into her religious prejudices; his congregation which shuns Asher after he delivers a passionate sermon in defense of tolerance; and his young son Justin caught in the middle of what turns into a bitter custody battle. With no way out but ahead Asher takes Justin and flees to Key West where he hopes to find his brother Luke whom he'd turned against years ago after Luke came out. And it is there at the southernmost point of the country that Asher and Justin discover a new way of thinking about the world and a new way of understanding love.Southernmost is a tender and affecting book a meditation on love atonement forgiveness and reconciliation.
language: English
title: Southernmost
publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill