Review: Confessions of X

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I recently started a book club with some friends in the area and this was the first book (and my pick) we read for fiction. This month is nonfiction, but I’ll review it next month.

Anyway, THE CONFESSIONS OF X by Suzanne M. Wolfe, is a beautiful historical fiction following the unnamed woman, who was St. Augustine’s concubine and bore him a son. We follow X from when she was born up to her gray years, when death is just around the corner. The book is rife with small homages to St. Augustine’...