The Dearly Beloved: A Read with Jenna Pick

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The Dearly Beloved: A Read with Jenna Pick - Paperback

The Dearly Beloved: A Read with Jenna Pick - Paperback

by Cara Wall
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by Cara Wall (Author)

A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick

"This gentle, gorgeously written book may be one of my favorites ever." --Jenna Bush Hager

This "moving portrait of love and friendship set against a backdrop of social change" (The New York Times Book Review) traces two married couples whose lives become entangled when the husbands become copastors at a famed New York city congregation in the 1960s.

Charles and Lily, James and Nan. They meet in Greenwich Village in 1963 when Charles and James are jointly hired to steward the historic Third Presbyterian Church through turbulent times. Their personal differences however, threaten to tear them apart.

Charles is destined to succeed his father as an esteemed professor of history at Harvard, until an unorthodox lecture about faith leads him to ministry. How then, can he fall in love with Lily--fiercely intellectual, elegantly stern--after she tells him with certainty that she will never believe in God? And yet, how can he not?

James, the youngest son in a hardscrabble Chicago family, spent much of his youth angry at his alcoholic father and avoiding his anxious mother. Nan grew up in Mississippi, the devout and beloved daughter of a minister and a debutante. James's escape from his desperate circumstances leads him to Nan and, despite his skepticism of hope in all its forms, her gentle, constant faith changes the course of his life.

Against the backdrop of turbulent changes facing the city and the church's congregation, The Dearly Beloved offers a poignant meditation on faith and reason, marriage and children, forgiveness and commitment, and the ways we find meaning in our lives.
Number of Pages: 384
Dimensions: 1 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN
Publication Date: July 07, 2020
ISBN9781982104535
Author Cara Wall
PublisherScribner Book Company
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedJuly 2020
LanguageENG- English
Pages384
Weight1.0 lb
Print SizeStandard Print

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