"It would be difficult to overstate the wonder I felt while reading this novel.
It\'s among the most beautiful books I\'ve ever read about longing -- for beauty, for sex, for God, for a coherent life." -- Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You Maggie is entirely devoted to her husband Thomas, their two beautiful children, and to God--until what begins as a platonic intellectual and spiritual exchange between writer Maggie and poe. "It would be difficult to overstate the wonder I felt while reading this novel