North of Hope

North of Hope by Hassler, Jon. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780345410108.

"Hasslers brilliance has always been his ability to achieve the depth of real literature through such sure-handed, no-gimmicks, honest language that the result appears effortless." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW After more than twenty years in the priesthood, Father Frank Healy is going home. But what he finds at the battered Our Ladys Church are very few believers and Libby Girard, a woman from his past, whom he thought hed never see again. But Libbys life is unraveling, and as she becomes dependent on him, the lives around them erupt in a tangle of drugs and despair, alcoholism and death. Ultimately, Franks vocation is tested at its weakest place: his continuing love for Libby. From the Paperback edition.