Katie
Quinn is a star of stage and screen at the top of her profession. She demands,
and gets, $25 million per movie. She has a stable of automobiles and houses on
two continents. She has a staff to
command satisfaction of every whim and desire. She is in Miami, saying
confession to the aging Father Steady Capris.
Katie
Quinn is preparing to kill herself.
Following
Katie at confession is a man whom we only know as Sunday. He has checked out
from the world, and lives in and near the Everglades. His one engagement with
the world is to disguise himself as a janitor, sneak into the children’s wing
of a Jacksonville Hospital, and distribute toys and books to the children
there.
We will
come to know that Sunday has already tried to kill himself.
The only
link between the two is the priest, who’s in the business of saving souls and
healing brokenness. And he has his hands full with Katie and Sunday. And he
will use both of them in what be a last attempt to heal.
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| Charles Martin |
Unwritten by Charles Martin is the story of
Katie and Sunday. Martin is the author of numerous books that plumb the depths
of human emotion and experience. Some could be called romances, like The Mountain Between Us (soon to be a movie with Idris Alba and Kate
Winslett). If Unwritten is a romance, it’s the strangest romance you may ever
read.
Sunday
will have save Katie from suicide. And he will help her escape her life by successfully
faking her death. Katie will gradually come to know who Sunday is, and she will
learn that his pain is as intense as her own. Each will teach the other how to
heal, and the healing means “unwriting” the lives written for them.
Unwritten is an engaging novel of
brokenness and redemption.
Related:
Top photograph of a sunset in the
Everglades by Jean Beaufort via Public
Domain Pictures. Used with permission.
2 comments:
Wow, this sounds really intense.
And the characters are so diverse -- you've got my curiosity hooked as to how this all gets resolved.
I loved this story! There was so much depth to it that I couldn't pick up another book for days afterwards.
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