In a passage toward the end of Frank X. Gaspar’s Stealing Fatima, a wintry dawn on Cape Cod reveals an astonishing sight: within the ruins of a church recently destroyed by fire, a pristine statue of Our Lady of Fatima stands on a mound of cinders, a gleam of color “among the gray and cheerless arabesques of ice.” Missing from the parish for decades, the statue has sudden (...)
September 10, 2010
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Burned Down & Out
Stealing FatimaFrank X. GasparCounterpoint, $15.95, 416 pp.
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