Naked in the Sanctuary

Julie Roorda

Guernica Editions, Spring 2004

148 pages

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781550711950

ISBN10: 1550711954

English

$15.00 Canada, $15.00 US

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A teenaged girl discovers a smuggling ring in the church her family attends. A father makes an uncomfortable confession on the eve of his daughter's wedding. A couple seeks a mate for their dead son's semen samples. Parents and children demand conformity from one another: in marriage, sexuality, living arrangements and matters of religious faith. The women in these stories transcend, disappoint and explode the myths of every day expectations, and establish instead the rituals of their own spiritual realities.

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