I am very exited to announce that The Anglican Digest has include my novel in their Transfiguration A.D. 2008 issue. The issue will be out soon, but in the meantime the review is here:
A novel set in 1990, this is the story of Episcopalian Katherine Tierney who spends a year working in a mission outpost in Burkina Faso. The story might be predictable but Brady’s descriptions of the setting, the culture, and their impact on the characters is engrossing and, for those who have similar experience in their history, evocative of fond memories. The spiritual issues with which the central character has to wrestle underscore the impact that time spent in mission can have on those who chose to invest their lives in that service. In the opinion of this editor, Unlikely Missionary is worthwhile read. — JDB ISBN: 1591136989, $15.95
This is a great encouragement. Thank you to Father John and TAD for recommending The Unlikely Missionary!
Starting immediately I will begin offering an audio version of the novel The Unlikely Missionary. I will make chapters available every other week until the whole novel is complete. There will be no charge, I just ask that you let others know about this site and the novel.
You may either listen to the chapters from within each post, download from the link included in the post, or receive an automatic update by subscribing to the podcast via iTunes.
The first chapter available is the Prologue.
Enjoy!
In my novel, The UM, I recount a night dream I had. In fact, I have thought about it for so long that I don’t think it was a dream at all; I think it was a vision. It was so vivid that I can still remember the face of the Gourma man very clearly 16 years later. I have also tried to make sense of it in a short story I wrote called “The House God” (which no one has wanted to publish!) where I try to understand it from the Gourma man’s perspective.
It all came back to me because of an experience recounted by Peter Duffy, a journalist for the Chronicle Herald in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who had a vivid dream encounter and is talking to monks, spiritualists, and priests trying to make sense of his experience:
“Nocturnal visit leaves me shaken”
UPDATE: Apparently the Chronicle Herald does not leave their stories posted so the link above is dead. If I find another link I will provide an update.
This is the new blog for those interested in my novel, The Unlikely Missionary, and those interested in issues of concern to women, writing, Africa, dark chocolate, Bono, and the continually fascinating breakdown of the Episcopal Church.
I’ve just finished Tony Hendra’s “Father Joe” which was really outstanding. One scene really stuck with me, partly because I’ve struggled with it as well, but Father Joe sends Tony back into the world where he is called to be a husband and father. Not called to be a monk. Or, a missionary, or… you fill in the blank.
