Beautiful and complicated, as is life. Splendidly written. Deeply compassionate even to the least, the most difficult among us. McDermott doesn’t shy away from anything in this examination of faith and love and community, but holds up a mirror of incarnation, at times repulsive and noxious, by which the reader engages with their own morality, and their own capacity for kindness and understanding. Life, McDermott shows us, is messy and absurd and fierce and funny and...glorious for all that.