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Novel Theology: The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

This month's selection:  The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell.

Iris Lockhart is leading her quiet while complicated life when she one day discovers she is guardian to a great-aunt she never knew existed. As she learns the history of her aunt’s sixty year stay at a local psychiatric facility, the reader will recognize that the levels of familial and societal betrayal in this work extend far and deep. How far will human beings go to create their own picture of the perfect life? Who is expended along the way? And, is there a tipping point beyond which there is no redemption?

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