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8. Ellen Cooney's book, One Night Two Souls Went Walking

Sun Dec 13, 2020, 02:23 PM

Dec 2020

A young interfaith chaplain is joined on her hospital rounds one night by an unusual companion: a rough-and-ready dog who may or may not be a ghost. As she tends to the souls of her patients—young and old, living last moments or navigating fundamentally altered lives—their stories provide unexpected healing for her own heartbreak. Balancing wonder and mystery with pragmatism and humor, Ellen Cooney (A Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second Chances) returns to Coffee House Press with a generous, intelligent novel that grants the most challenging moments of the human experience a shimmer of light and magical possibility.

I am really enjoying this one. Good stories, well told.

Thanks for the thread, hermetic. I hope you like The Night Watchman as much as I did.

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