A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice--not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother\'s death, but because he is the reason I believe in God
I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.
What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is extraordinary..
The boy who hits the ball doesn\'t believe in accidents
Owen Meany believes he is God\'s instrument.
One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills the other boy\'s mother.
In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys--best friends--are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire.
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice--not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother\'s death, but because he is the reason I believe in God
I am a Christian because of Owen Meany
