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North of Hope by Jon Hassler is a beautifully told tale of blighted spirits restored by the power of hope. Father Frank Healy is a priest hoping to reawaken a vocation that he fears is slipping away. Working on an Ojibway reservation in Northern Minnesota, he unexpectedly encounters his former high school girlfriend and is swept up in a gripping drama of temptation, crime, and love. This absorbing, realistic, and faith-filled novel explores the territory all of us find ourselves in when we believe ourselves to be “north of hope.”
A guide for deeper individual understanding of the novel or for group discussion [pdf]
Jon Hassler (1933-2008) was an award-winning author of eleven novels, two story collections, and three plays. He has been described as "a writer good enough to restore your faith in fiction" by The New York Times Book Review and "one of America’s most completely satisfying novelists" by The Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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