Roy M. Close
Roy M. Close
Discernment
Cedric Willow is senior warden at St. Bartholomew by the Lake, a small Episcopal parish in Minneapolis. When the incumbent rector resigns, Cedric forms a search committee and embarks on a nine-month search for a new spiritual leader.
Cedric’s task is complicated by a bitter feud between two members of the vestry, by the fact that he is a closet atheist, and by a disruptive voice in his head called Op Ed. The thorn in Cedric’s side is the Church Lady, the mousy junior warden, a feminist who aspires to his position, who strikes him as pious to a fault, and with whom he is falling in love.
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about the author
Minneapolis native Roy M. Close spent twenty-odd years as a journalist, most of them as a critic of theater, classical music, and dance for Twin Cities dailies. He is the author of more than a dozen plays, poetry, and freelance articles for a broad range of periodicals.
Discernment is his first novel.