Hail Mary Corner
General fiction, Religion
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Summary
Taut compelling and remarkably assured Hail Mary Corner thrusts readers into unfamiliar territory past an emotional frontier we all must cross the uncertain ground between adolescence and adulthood High on a cliff above a pulp-mill… town on Vancouver Island sixteen-year-old Bill MacAvoy and his friends lead cloistered lives while other boys their age run free it may be the fall of 1982 but inside the walls of their Benedictine seminary they inhabit a medieval world steeped in ritual and discipline a place where blackrobed monks move like shadows between doubt and faith Isolated from the outside Bill and his friends develop a unique and often hilarious culture Schooled in the virtues of sacrifice and service they instead learn to challenge resist and wield power over one another s lives On the road to certain expulsion Bill discovers two secrets one concerns Brother Thomas the monk who watches his every move the other involves his best friend Jon In Bill s hands these secrets prove dangerous weapons Handled carelessly they trigger an event that threatens to haunt him for the rest of his life