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David Adams Richard: A (Catholic) Novelist for Our Time
Leading up to Lent 2013 I was, metaphorically speaking, journeying toward Rome from Canterbury. My heart and mind were conforming to a new way of feeling and thinking, and I wanted my imagination to follow suit. To help with this I searched online for a novel written by a Catholic. I was already familiar with Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh. I wanted something new. After looking at a few online lists, I happened upon David Adams Richards’s Mercy Among the Children, which co-won the Giller Prize with Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost.