The Comfort of Our Kind
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books; Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Published: March 18, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780312369293
Subjects: Modern fiction; American Contemporary Fiction - Individual Authors +; American First Novelists; Fiction; Fiction - General; General; Fiction / General; Domestic fiction; Eccentrics and eccentricities; Religious fiction
Description: Situated between two mountain ridges, the New England town of Franklin Notch celebrates its history and the characters who have forged it. The cornerstone of its heritage is Talbert's Treaty, an eighteenth-century agreement between the original settlers and the Sagaweh Indian nation. As children, Boone, Veronica, and Reggie were trained by their mother's puzzling bedtime stories to serve in God's Army of Saints and fight for goodness on earth. Now, as adults, they search for their gifts of faith, hope, and grace in a parade of life-altering adventures while struggling with the presence of evil in the world. Along the way, they collide with a collection of characters, including a serial killer, a Zen-like naturalist doctor, a genius Mafia princess, phony Native Americans, and the Devil himself in various incarnations of human vanity.