Saint Maybe | Related Titles

In this novel, Tyler adopts a serious and thoughtful tone about religion. Although it creates a religious context for the issue of control, the novel reiterates Tyler's continuing assertion that one can choose to be crushed by life's blows or move on and choose to remember the joys rather than the pain.

Ian cannot handle the task of dealing with his part in Danny's suicide alone, and he senses that religion may provide some relief. But religion is not an easily accepted solution. Ian acknowledges the embarrassment he once felt at religious phrases, and his family is clearly...

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