Spanning the twentieth century, Cottonwood Saints chronicles the lives of a New Mexico woman and her son, Michael. Margarita Juana Galvan was born in a lumber camp in 1913 and is brought up like a little princess in her grandparents' hacienda. In con...
In this modern retelling of the 'Book of Jonah', Fr Jon Armitage, like his biblical counterpart, rejects the call from God to his own 'Nineveh'. In an ironic echoing of Jonah's fate, the priest is swallowed up by a metaphorical whale and deposited on...