This was the May selection for the Church Ladies book club. It won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize, and is written in the style of a father's memoir to his young son. The father is elderly, a pastor, and the son is the product of a second marriage and is very young. It is a sort of rambling prose that tells the story, which takes time to tell due to the many rememberences that the man includes.
For me, it was hard to get through. I found myself skimming over the extra, and tried to just get the bones of the story, which was difficult. Lots of lovely reflections about life, religion, love...but I did keep thinking 'get to the story!'
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