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Title: What to Wear to See the Pope
Author: Christine Lehner
Narrator: Tara Ochs
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-18-14
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Alice Fairweather, a lapsed Catholic who lives in upstate New York with her two sons and philandering husband (whom she loves to distraction), has just lost her dream job as a radio talk show hostess. When one of the family dogs suddenly becomes gravely ill, Alice opts out of a family spelunking vacation to nurse the pooch. Unexpectedly, her husbands charismatic Nicaraguan Harvard roommate, Abelardo - coffee planter, failed seminarian, and scion of an old Nicaraguan family - comes to visit as part of his quest to have his aunt canonized as the first Nicaraguan saint. Through a variety of somewhat bizarre and miraculous events, Abelardo must return home to his village before his canonization work is complete. But Alice, with time on her hands and a void to fill, adopts Abelardos mission and becomes obsessed with helping him find the path to sanctify his ancestor. Not only does she befriend Hubert, the eccentric man in charge of New Yorks hagiography club, she becomes somewhat of an expert on the various women who have achieved the distinction of sainthood, and soon finds herself on a plane destined for Nicaragua.
Abelardos quest to canonize his aunt, together with Alices quest to save her marriage, makes for a miraculous story of love, loss, and faith.
Members Reviews:
One of my favorites
The book is so good I'll lend it out, get impatient about its return and simply buy a new one! I only wish I were as witty, verbose and grammatically inclined as Lehner's characters.
This is a terrific book.
In a voice that's distinctive and marvelously quirky, the author tells tales of domestic life that dance on the edge of the absurd but resonate with essential truth. The voice is so quirky that it would be easy for it to go over the top, or become cloying, but it never does. Lehner delights not just in chasing absurdities to comic lengths, but in playing with the language -- and while it can be irritating when writers toss in fancy words, it doesn't here. She's not showing off; she's rejoicing in the richness of the language. My favorite is a tale about a knife that seems to have a malicious mind of its own, but the story of a phantom limb runs a close second. And, throughout, these odd saints keep appearing, to delightful effect.
Just literally plain fun!
This writer has a great use of language and can poke fun of an extensive vocabulary all the same. I am a book reviewer for a major newspaper and a published author as well, so I kiss a lot of toads to find the royalty that will go in our columns, this one made it in stellar fashion. I am including this as one of 2004's best debuts. I read much of this book while climbing a stairmaster at the gym. On three occasions people came up to me to ask me what it was that was "SO FUNNY" about the book, writing down the title to go find it. ENJOY!
Better than Belgian Chocolate and funnier too
It does not do justice to this book to call it a collection of short stories, it's more a series of plunges into the same bracing swimming pool. I read it in one sitting and it played every variation of my laugh button. Ms. Lehner knows more about Saints than she needs to, but you don't have to be Catholic to enjoy the obsession.
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Title: What to Wear to See the Pope
Author: Christine Lehner
Narrator: Tara Ochs
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-18-14
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Alice Fairweather, a lapsed Catholic who lives in upstate New York with her two sons and philandering husband (whom she loves to distraction), has just lost her dream job as a radio talk show hostess. When one of the family dogs suddenly becomes gravely ill, Alice opts out of a family spelunking vacation to nurse the pooch. Unexpectedly, her husbands charismatic Nicaraguan Harvard roommate, Abelardo - coffee planter, failed seminarian, and scion of an old Nicaraguan family - comes to visit as part of his quest to have his aunt canonized as the first Nicaraguan saint. Through a variety of somewhat bizarre and miraculous events, Abelardo must return home to his village before his canonization work is complete. But Alice, with time on her hands and a void to fill, adopts Abelardos mission and becomes obsessed with helping him find the path to sanctify his ancestor. Not only does she befriend Hubert, the eccentric man in charge of New Yorks hagiography club, she becomes somewhat of an expert on the various women who have achieved the distinction of sainthood, and soon finds herself on a plane destined for Nicaragua.
Abelardos quest to canonize his aunt, together with Alices quest to save her marriage, makes for a miraculous story of love, loss, and faith.
Members Reviews:
One of my favorites
The book is so good I'll lend it out, get impatient about its return and simply buy a new one! I only wish I were as witty, verbose and grammatically inclined as Lehner's characters.
This is a terrific book.
In a voice that's distinctive and marvelously quirky, the author tells tales of domestic life that dance on the edge of the absurd but resonate with essential truth. The voice is so quirky that it would be easy for it to go over the top, or become cloying, but it never does. Lehner delights not just in chasing absurdities to comic lengths, but in playing with the language -- and while it can be irritating when writers toss in fancy words, it doesn't here. She's not showing off; she's rejoicing in the richness of the language. My favorite is a tale about a knife that seems to have a malicious mind of its own, but the story of a phantom limb runs a close second. And, throughout, these odd saints keep appearing, to delightful effect.
Just literally plain fun!
This writer has a great use of language and can poke fun of an extensive vocabulary all the same. I am a book reviewer for a major newspaper and a published author as well, so I kiss a lot of toads to find the royalty that will go in our columns, this one made it in stellar fashion. I am including this as one of 2004's best debuts. I read much of this book while climbing a stairmaster at the gym. On three occasions people came up to me to ask me what it was that was "SO FUNNY" about the book, writing down the title to go find it. ENJOY!
Better than Belgian Chocolate and funnier too
It does not do justice to this book to call it a collection of short stories, it's more a series of plunges into the same bracing swimming pool. I read it in one sitting and it played every variation of my laugh button. Ms. Lehner knows more about Saints than she needs to, but you don't have to be Catholic to enjoy the obsession.