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Summary: Divinely Human
Review: Erin McGraw doesn't make things easy for her readers -- but as we watch a tormented priest stuff his face at the refrigerator, as we feel our own overwhelming hunger for food and compassion and mercy, as we waltz with two men (the one we love and the one we married), as we lose our beards and endure ridicule, as we discover our husbands have betrayed us for decades, as we scatter the ashes of the woman who has been our rival, Erin McGraw makes us feel the giddy wonder of it all with a quiver of humor and deep waves of sorrow. I am in awe of her patient attention to each heart-breaking, tender detail, and I am inspired by the grace she finds in the lives of her suffering, divinely human people.
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Summary: Erin McGraw Tells it Straight (and Crooked)
Review: First, you must know about the priests. They are fumbling against desire, broken-hearted, broken in many places, mean-spirited sometimes. One is fat. Another dips long and deep into the wine and falls in love too easily. McGraw lets them trip and fall, exposes their dark secrets, and just as the melancholy settles around your shoulders, she lets fly her sad, funny language. From amid the crumbling (of the lives of priests, sure, but of many other souls as well) the reader will find a wellspring of humanity. These stories are laden with compassion, beauty, and sorrow, and not a small portion of hope. I'll let you know you'll love the priests, but I'll leave to you the joy of discovering the others. Buy the book.
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