Description: A heartfelt daring divinely hilarious debut novel about a priest who embarks on a fateful journey with a pistol in his pocket and an injured coyote in his backseat." A beautiful and meditative exploration of shattered faith." Brit Bennett author of The Vanishing Half Father Dan is homeless. Dismissed by his conservative diocese for eccentricity and insubordination he's made his exile into a kind of pilgrimage transforming his Toyota Camry into a mobile monk's cell. Then he sees a minivan sideswipe a coyote. Unable to suppress his Franciscan impulses he takes the injured animal in. With his unexpected canine companion in the backseat Dan makes his way west encountering other offbeat travelers and stopping to take in the occasional roadside novelty (Martin's HOLE TO HELL World - Famous Bottomless PIT NEXT EXIT!). But the coyote is far from the only oddity fate has delivered into this churchless priest's care: it has also given him a bone - handled pistol a box of bullets and a letter from an estranged friend. By the time Dan gets to where he's going he ll be forced to reckon once and for all with the great mistakes of his past and he will have to decide: is penance better paid with revenge or with redemption?
Title: Via Negativa A Novel
Barcode: 9780593081006
Publication Date: 7/6/2021