A Certain Slant of Light Author:Margaret Wander Bonanno Sarah is a distinguished and successful professor at a small Catholic school, whose devastating stroke leaves her changed forever, and in need of round-the-clock help. Joan, a young college-educated divorcing mother, needs a job to support herself and her son. Pietro, a priest and Sarah's teaching colleague, is utterly in love with Sarah and... more », we suspect, she with him...but Sarah never encourages him to break his vows as she did by leaving a nunnery to marry a famous sculptor so long ago.
These three people, quite convincingly drawn, are in orbit around each other held by the metaphysical gravity of love...
But Bonanno's long career in fiction can be explained in one short sentence about this, her first novel: She makes you believe that goodness is real.« less