Father Meme

About this book

Father Meme a sleazy priest abused three altar boys at the Indian Mission Church of the Snow located on an Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota. The sexual abuse evolves at the mission at Saint Johns Abbey and on a houseboat at Lake Namakan in the Voyageurs National Park. The altar boys refuse to be victims and stage various strategies of resistance simultaneously ironic tricky and grisly including the Fourteen Torments founded on the Stations of the Cross. Father Meme is justly sacrificed by the altar boys in a winter fish house on Wiindigoo Lake. This modern fable of wicked priests sin sacrifice and survivance is told to a visiting lawyer and cultural historian from France a bygone association of the Fur Trade and the Anishinaabe or Chippewa Indians of the Great Lakes. Father Meme is a singular memorable novel that confronts clerical sexual abuse and denounces the reluctance of the Catholic Church to punish pedophile priests. "The Benedictine Monks at Saint Johns Abbey first touched my heart by choral music and then the priest silenced me by his greedy touch and sexual abuse."--from Father Meme