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To Forgive the Foxes
Sandra Charles
其他書名
A Fictionalized Memoir of Priesthood Sexual Abuse
出版LittleOak Indexing, 2016-10-04
主題Fiction / Coming of Age
ISBN06927859579780692785959
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Zt9QvgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Joan's story, set in the rural 1960s Midwest, transitions through her early religious indoctrination and loss of innocence to arrive at a jolting epiphany in her early twenties. As a child, Joanie Moller, a Catholic parochial student, is a sensitive kid...a feeler and a thinker...who experiences emotional and physical abuse from her teachers that escalates to sexual abuse by her parish priest. Joan grows into a damaged young woman who manages to follow her life-long dream of becoming a nurse. Clergy abuse of children. How can it happen? Why is it so pervasive, yet so long undetected? To Forgive the Foxes reveals this long-hidden crime, and explores how it proliferates for decades with impunity. While working in the operating room at University of Wisconsin Hospital, Madison, and living in denial of her past, Joan attracts the attention of an older and very complex general surgeon, Dr. Bret Farley. Bret is the local cut-up, notorious for his operating room hijinks, but he reveals a wise maturity on their dates. This zany joker has his own dark history as well as the heart of a spiritual philosopher. Once he has fallen in love with Joan, he makes it his goal to convince her that forgiveness is for the forgiver. Can he do that? To Forgive the Foxes is filled with 1960s icons, intense operating room drama, bold humor, fresh love and true spiritual awakening.