Synopsis
Samuel
Gentle, the groundskeeper for The Church of the Holy Comforter,
has heard God’s call three times. The first was in a field off the
Pamet Roads in Truro while accompanying his father on a walk; the
second was in the aftermath of a terrible bus accident with his friend
Inez Castillo while he was minister of a small adobe church about forty
miles outside of Albuquerque at the foot of the Cebolleta; and the
third was the birth of his daughter, Ariel, covered all over in a
white-gold swirl of hair. Samuel has heard this voice but struggles to
comprehend its mystery and his own rage and bewilderment at loss. He
wants to believe that “grace enters the soul through a wound.” As Ariel
grows into a child of transcendent inner beauty and strength, Samuel
regains his own faith and discovers what is most holy.
