Jamesland

✍ Scribed by Michelle Huneven

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage
• Year: 2007;2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 228 KB
• Edition: 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0307426459

✦ Synopsis

Jamesland , the buoyant second novel by Michelle Huneven, critically acclaimed author of Round __Rock , is a witty, sophisticated, and deeply humane comedy of unlikely redemption.

When thirty-three-year-old Alice Black discovers a deer in her dining room after fighting with her boyfriend, she wonders if she's going crazy. Pete Ross, forty-six, knows he's crazy. He's wrecked his marriage, slashed his wrists, and done time in a psychiatric institution, and now he's being cared for by his mother, who's a nun. Forty-five-year-old Helen Harland, a spirited Unitarian Universalist minister, is being driven crazy by her hostile church administration. Living in Los Feliz, California, the three meet at Helen's Wednesday midweek services. Though initiallyincompatible, the sheer force of Helen's idiosyncratic ministering (her "variety show of religious experience")--paired with Alice's illustrious ancestor William James--proves to be a...