O Death, Where Is Thy Sting?

What a relief and, strangely, a comfort to be allowed inside a Jesuit brother s own dark nights of questions and quandaries. Readers will feel accompanied in their own profound doubts and sufferings. The load gets lighter shared. --Julia Alvarez, author, AfterlifeJoe Hoover has shaken the theodicean tree and stands among the fallen apples wormy and bruised, laden with grace and gravity. Part Rolling Stone, part Rutter s Requiem, O Death, Where is Thy Sting? serves up sups of Hopkins and Robert Ingersoll, doses of Job, both joyous and sorrowful mysteries, before which we mortals sit in silence, marveling. --Thomas Lynch, author, The DepositionsJoe Hoover has gifted us with an intense, wonderfully poetic, and exceptionally moving interrogation of how we should feel about loss, justice, and holiness amid the upheavals of life. I find it brilliant. --Ron Hansen, author of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford O Death, Where Is Thy Sting? employs stories from unique, co